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Quotes by Businessman
"So I think instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer."
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"When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it."
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"The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all sorts of misunderstandings, and to a certain extent, people do not get the full picture from the media. A lot of foreigners have few opportunities to visit China, and a lot of Chinese people do not have the chance to go to Europe or to the West."
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"Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships."
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"When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either."
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"If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it."
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"When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results."
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"An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it."
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"Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game."
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"The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different."
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"I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad."
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"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."
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"Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures."
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"Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service."
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"Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war."
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"If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade."
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"Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program."
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"Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out."
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"Roger Revelle died of a heart attack three months after the Cosmos story was printed. Oh, how I wish he were still alive today. He might be able to stop this scientific silliness and end the global warming scam. He might well stand beside me as a global warming denier."
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"Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently."
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"If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing."
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"Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be."
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"At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right."
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"Advertising says to people, 'Here's what we've got. Here's what it will do for you. Here's how to get it.'"
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"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."
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"If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?"
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"Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, as long as money will last to buy it."
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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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"I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare."
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"We typically hear numbers that there are 34 million households that are in stocks in some form. Well, I say that what's occurred is if you have a job in this country, you're in stocks."
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"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world."
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"We get paid for bringing value to the market place."
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"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
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"Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs."
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"Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all."
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"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said."
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"The only time to buy these is on a day with no "y" in it."
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"Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization."
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"It's not the tools that you have faith in. Tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not."
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"Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped."
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"If Mr. Ware does not want republican laborers on his plantation, let him pay them in full for the time contracted for, and they will leave his plantation at once."
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"The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way."
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"In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally."
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"Where we can compete on merit, we do very well."
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"A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important."
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"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
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