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Quotes by Businessman
"You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere."
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"Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something."
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"A company is only as good as the people it keeps."
77
"If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse."
77
"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste."
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"This just makes me know and understand that there is no one reality that suits all, just one that suits each of us."
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"I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half."
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"Thinking will not overcome fear but action will."
76
"Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done."
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"I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night."
76
"Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along."
76
"Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals."
76
"There is only one side of the market and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side."
75
"I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No."
75
"Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people."
75
"Our feet are grape-squashed in memoriesour skins are still flushedfrom the touch of summer's lips."
75
"Innovation comes from saying no to 1,000 things."
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"We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes."
74
"If a business does well, the stock eventually follows."
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"Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare."
74
"Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself."
Life,
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"The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on."
74
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."
74
"There is an equation that I like to use when looking at my life's progress: Current Worth - Past Worth = Progress or Regression."
74
"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."
74
"The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language."
73
"A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself."
73
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."
73
"It's not just buying the company. Sure, we picked the right companies, and we picked the right management and, most importantly, we've given them the right incentive to perform."
73
"I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there."
73
"I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about."
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"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own."
72
"An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it."
72
"Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently."
72
"Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations."
72
"We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it."
72
"Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make."
72
"The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same."
72
"Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures."
72
"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."
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"I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts."
71
"My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person."
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"My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time."
71
"I regard a great ad as the most beautiful thing in the world."
71
"Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together."
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"The world is getting so small. Young people are mobile; they want to travel around the world. When you travel around the world, you exchange culture, you want to make friends, you want to exchange things."
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