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Quotes by Businessman
"People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do."
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"I am an American in every fiber of my body and in every heartbeat."
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"I know what the attitudes of the readers are: These are guys who love women and respect women."
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"The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang."
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"If you have a good selling idea, your secretary can write your ad for you."
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"Wake up, Carolee, the plane is waiting for us, we have to get to the game."
38
"A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge."
38
"I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone."
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"I'd guess that 80 percent of the people who work for Playboy are feminists."
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"What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself."
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"Because an appeal makes logical sense is no guarantee that it will work."
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"I fed them every day. So it was a papa that kept food on the table for them. I did that. I did my part."
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"We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals."
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"Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real."
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"That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in."
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"I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."
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"As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species - that means all known and recorded information - is going to be just a few keystrokes away in a matter of years."
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"Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen."
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"In the days of Gary Cooper, James Stewart etc, film stars personified the better aspects of human nature."
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"Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent."
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"Personally, I just got one of these Vonage IP phones. It's actually pretty cool. It comes with one of these Cisco ATA routers where you just plug an analog handset in."
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"But the real focus should be on people who are buying today because the base is so big it will take a long time for any change materialize on an overall basis."
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"The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves."
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"Bertelsmann understood our vision when they first invested in us... They still believe in that vision."
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"The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away."
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"I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them."
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"They're really nice kids. Michael is really raising them properly and right."
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"To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states."
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"A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives."
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"We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society."
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"A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad."
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"Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them."
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"What I'm saying is that there are bargains right now, there are stocks right now that if you're shrewd enough, you will be able to buy them at the opening today and I you'll make money in a year from now."
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"IBM decided they were going to enter the copying business in 1968."
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"People were desperately trying to fill their seats for the summer. And so prices are really low right now. And so they are kept from raising prices to make up for that difference."
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"You never know with these things when you're trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental."
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"Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children."
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"The headline is the most important element of an ad. It must offer a promise to the reader of a believable benefit. And it must be phrased in a way to give it memory value."
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"When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values."
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"One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics."
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"Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers."
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"Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing."
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"And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge."
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"I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living."
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"You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift."
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"I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big."
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"God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits."
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"I was long brought up to think that it was nothing short of a crime to miss a sale."
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