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Quotes by Businessman
"Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market."
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"My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person."
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"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."
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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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"Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures."
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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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"Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem."
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"Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe."
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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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"If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure."
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"You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure."
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"The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy."
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"Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged."
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"Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world."
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"Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals."
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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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"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."
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"We tell anybody who asks that we think Apple is making a big mistake by not being compatible."
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"Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other."
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"Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it."
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"I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here."
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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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"A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more."
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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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"Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them."
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"In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy."
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"There is only one side of the market and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side."
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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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"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
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"When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it."
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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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"The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell."
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"The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights."
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"Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway."
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"This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth."
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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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"I remember very clearly at the first budget review having a pretty direct conversation with the head of manufacturing... We began to get huge improvements in productivity and responsiveness. I got a chance to see that firsthand."
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"If a business does well, the stock eventually follows."
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"Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life."
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"So I think instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer."
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"Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility."
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