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"So far, Indian companies have focused more on customer application. This needs to shift to packaged software for sectors such as banking and financial services."
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"Actually, my parents were separated by the time I was about 2 years old."
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"When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky."
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"I'm not trying to be coy here; we're just not prepared to give a lot of detail about our thinking, but we will be making some announcements in the coming months."
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"Then you must look for a new body. That's what we call reincarnation."
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"I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way."
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"Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist."
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"But the equipment to protect the players hasn't developed along with that, so now you have more players out with worse injuries, for longer periods of time."
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"Research has shown that people who volunteer often live longer."
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"It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed."
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"Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death."
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"They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought."
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"A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment."
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"Some, but much of my money is tied up in Playboy stock."
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"I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business."
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"During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer."
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"The secret of all effective advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships."
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"We were therefore obliged to unload our boats of their cargoes and pass them empty over the falls by means of long cords which we had provided for such purposes."
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"The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!"
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"I wouldn't write a book, because saying the word I over and over again would nauseate me."
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"Much of what we see in America, what most people feel has been progress and good things, have been brought about by the existence of third parties."
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"I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily."
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"Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way."
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"Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'"
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"The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being."
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"By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while."
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"I actually thrive on all the challenges, and I don't feel like ADD has impaired my ability."
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"If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them."
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"I can't deny that some customers and prospects think it's the key to our future. But it's not. We're certainly supportive of the Dept. of Justice and the 20 states that have brought this action."
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"We can collaborate with a Netscape employee or partner who's halfway around the world. We can distribute information and software to customers and shareholders, and get their feedback."
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"While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points."
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"The biggest thrill wasn't in winning on Sunday but in meeting the payroll on Monday."
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"Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line."
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"I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer."
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"We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good."
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"Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it's a very painful job because we publish a lot of books, and there are things I see where I can punch people out. Therefore, we have some new people now, and the kids are going to read our books."
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"This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it."
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"I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?"
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"It's the first time I've ever done anything like that. It took longer than I expected. I've gotten a lot of E-mail since I got back, saying they thought I did a good job and presented the case well."
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"I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you."
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"Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire."
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