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Quotes by Businessman

"This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all."

"Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit."

"A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements."


"So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside."

"I am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relationship between peace, security and the environment. I meet with young people around the world and I always come away enthused and encouraged."

"One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life."

"Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising."

"China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers."

"I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this."

"The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax us citizens for our carbon footprints."

"You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside."

"I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product."

"Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality."

"I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle."

"A book reaches a different crowd of people. There are 50 different stories of very different individuals participating in their communities either locally or nationally in meaningful ways."

"Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people."

"In Iraq, embedding allows us to put reporters in situations that would otherwise be too dangerous for them."

"From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war."

"There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect."

"Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures."

"One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send their children to school."

"Never mind your happiness; do your duty."

"I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve."


"I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation."

"I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others."


"In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design."

"As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing."

"I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat."

"Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business."

"There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel."


"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected."

"You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else."

"I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college."


"In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated."

"Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop."

"The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get."

"Nobody's irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we've had a cult of personality in this company and in this industry, and frankly, I'd like to see that diminish."


"If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right."

"Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward."

"If an ad campaign is built around a weak idea - or as is so often the case, no idea at all - I don't give a damn how good the execution is, it's going to fail."

"They've found a way to privately, or within a small family group, share expressions, or other images, drawings, and then gain access to some of the world's great expressions and images and make them real, make them tangible."

"Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so."

"A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement."

"What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?"

"A responsible person accepts the results of his choices, attributing blame or praise to himself; that is what makes you happy with the way you turned out."

"We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone."
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