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Quotes by Businessman
"I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth."
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"Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information."
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"Of course, competition against others is there, but it should serve to challenge you. To show you how well other people are competing against themselves."
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"If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble."
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"Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day."
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"The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment."
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"You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart."
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"We asked ourselves what we wanted this company to stand for. We didn't want to just sell shoes. I wasn't even into shoes - but I was passionate about customer service."
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"Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that."
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"My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did."
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"But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business."
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"If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype."
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"You areas fleetingly beautifulas a mother's tearsand a father's pranksa brother's bachelorhoodand a best friend's bad mooda bride's glittering jittersand a handsome stranger's smile."
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"There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers."
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"In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car."
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"And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership."
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"My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world."
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"Great things often come from actions and decisions taken by others, that are deemed wild, stupid or unreasonable at the time, but later prove to be very useful."
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"Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience."
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"I am infinitely yearningbrimmingand overflowingin wordsi discoverit's another wayfor meto be in tears."
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"Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart."
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"As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement."
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"When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it."
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"In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural."
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"Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?"
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"I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out."
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"It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove."
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"I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870."
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"Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the flexibility in their jobs to also be primary caretakers."
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"Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship."
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"Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day."
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"The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid."
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"It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team."
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"You must never actually cheat the customer, even if you can. You must make her happy and satisfied, so she will come back."
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"A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate."
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"If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell."
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"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work."
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"The weakness in the company is if we fail to execute."
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"In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage."
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"Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel."
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"Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable."
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"But I think technology advertising will have to stop addressing how products are made and concentrate more on what a product will do for the consumer."
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"It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading."
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"We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night's sleep."
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"These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly red) and are partially covered with a dwarfish growth of pine and cedar, which are the only species of timber to be seen."
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"There are many things that you can avoid by just knowing something. Knowledge of self is the most notable knowledge I pursue. By knowing myself, I avoided dead dreams and a meaningless life."
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"Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank."
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"Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway."
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"We've got a low turnover management group and executive group who've grown up in the business."
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