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Quotes by Businessman
"We don't fight about money... I hate to see people fight about money."
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"Change is a friend to a life with a vision, but an enemy to an aimless person."
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"Do not turn me intorestless watersif you cannot promiseto be my stream."
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"The days seem short, and time seems too little to do what you love."
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"Our company is working with Disney to create a game for children between the ages of maybe four and 12, so we can teach them what the capitalist system is all about."
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"Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you're really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have."
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"Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you "don't have the time"."
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"We have, unlike many of our competitors, continued to meet our various financial obligations."
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"So it's the kind of business where you can't wait to get up in the morning and read the papers, or listen to what's on the news, and you know, how the world's going to change."
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"I don't believe in government regulation of the software industry."
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"One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt."
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"I don't think there is any franchise more powerful than ours around securing the consumer experience and we will not concede that to anyone including Microsoft."
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"We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families who have been through hell."
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"One of our most difficult realizations was that - in the course of two years - a connecting hub in St. Louis had gone from something we thought we needed to something we could no longer afford."
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"In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war."
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"If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?"
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"No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself."
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"Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive."
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"Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served."
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"The search for someone to blame is always successful."
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"I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity."
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"Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands."
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"I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market."
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"In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple."
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"What's a rainy daywithout some deliciouscoffee-flavoured loneliness?"
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"The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China."
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"Advertising moves people toward goods; merchandising moves goods toward people."
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"No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist."
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"The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word."
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"This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool."
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"Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves."
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"All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is."
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"China gets their oil from Libya. Why isn't China involved? They're going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over the world economically. And we're spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on policing the world. Why isn't China involved with Libya? That - we don't get oil from Libya, China does."
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"Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders."
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"One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible."
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"From day one our next generation system will run all our exsisting software - so that gives us a head start."
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"The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior."
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"After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began the descent of the river."
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"Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it."
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"I'm a mediator by training and inclination."
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"If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams."
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"The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world, and it is from the youth and not from the old that the fire of life will warm and enlighten the world. It is your privilege to breathe the breath of life into the dry bones of many around you."
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"Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore."
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"I think we're in the beginning of a bull market. When a bull market begins, nine months later the economy turns around."
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"FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men."
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