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Quotes by Businessman

"Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations."

"She's gotoceanstucked awayin her hairpoems swimunder her skin."

"Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves."

"The problem to solve is, whether a single or a double government would be most advantageous; and, in considering that point, I am met by this difficulty - that I cannot see that the present form of government is a double government at all."

"It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group."

"My dear, I have nothing to say.my heart burns like the evening sky."

"Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?"

"Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!"

"There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better."

"Our planes should be full, which among other things means we have a golden opportunity... to build on the momentum reflected in the financial results we are reporting today."

"I've said this forever - I've always believed the Today show is more than the sum of its parts."

"Indeed, the whole company, although thin in flesh, and generally of slight forms, and limbs, especially, are as good looking and intelligent a body of men as we usually meet with."

"In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with."

"What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now."

"I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded."

"Hearts everywhere bear scars of one form of hurt or the other, and it is necessary to keep this in mind when trying to understand why a person is the way he or she is."

"I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been."

"Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink."


"Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh."

"I'm never going to let nobody take those kids. They Michael's kids. They have no right to try to take those kids. It's going to be a big mess over that."

"A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free."

"If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management."

"Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people."

"All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them."

"Love was never meant to bejust a metaphorbetween the pages of poetry."

"The national oil companies still want to acquire some expertise so they will outsource more, but not totally."

"A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy."

"Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific."

"Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization."

"Index investing outperforms active management year after year."

"It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle."

"I wonder what will happen when you actually enjoy the pains that life gives us sometimes. You'll be above them."

"We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information."

"I think that by fearing death, you are actually fearing life because it is a part of life. People are born and people die."

"There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward."

"Those that know where they are going will not take any path they see in front of them, but they will take the one that goes in the direction they want."

"Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one."

"A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely."

"Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser."

"To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas."

"I could only speak in the smallest, most intimate circles about the real reasons which made me undertake the changeover of the plants for certain lines of production for I had to expect that many people would not understand me."

"It appears from Mr. Smith's account that there is no scarcity of buffalo as he penetrated the country."

"Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history."
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