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Quotes by Businessman
"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."
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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."
35
"Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility."
35
"I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead."
34
"When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results."
34
"Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change."
34
"Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently."
34
"Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes."
34
"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."
34
"I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half."
34
"If a business does well, the stock eventually follows."
34
"If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?"
34
"You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own."
34
"What constitutes worth? In short, I would say the valuable attributes you have in relation to how you can productively use them... All attributes have value, but they have worth if they are used productively."
34
"We were able to flood the zone immediately."
33
"Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs."
33
"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."
33
"The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone."
33
"So I think instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer."
33
"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."
33
"When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either."
32
"No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking."
32
"There is only one side of the market and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side."
32
"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power."
32
"You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you."
32
"Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher."
31
"When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors."
31
"Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem."
31
"In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy."
31
"The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell."
31
"Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals."
31
"People want economy and they will pay any price to get it."
31
"The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt."
31
"A company is only as good as the people it keeps."
31
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
31
"I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half."
31
"Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles."
31
"The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled."
30
"My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business."
30
"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it."
30
"My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time."
30
"I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race."
30
"When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it."
30
"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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