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Quotes by Businessman
"I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother."
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"You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you."
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"A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that when the cost-of-living rises appreciably wages have shortly been adjusted upward also."
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"It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It's stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here."
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"Time changes things; rather, a person's action over the passage of time changes things."
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"I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing."
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"There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative."
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"The price of progress is trouble, and I must be making a lot of progress."
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"A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success."
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"Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink."
Time,
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"What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit?"
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"I think they got caught up in how much money they could get from each of the city governments as far as tax rebates. But that stuff works when you make money. It's a little bit phantom money."
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"Vivendi will be one of the very few top communications groups of the Internet age. We will have customers all over the globe, providing services through all kinds of technology."
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"It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration."
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"Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself."
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"If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields."
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"If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars."
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"I don't know what a world would be like if you do away with sexy images."
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"When a person works towards a goal, he or she immediately creates two possible scenarios or outcomes; namely success and failure."
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"I think you'll do as well as most professionals. Most professionals don't beat the market. Let's not over-rate my industry. But if you have time, you can be in good mutual funds that have good records."
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"My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see."
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"More people deserted our party and we have never recovered."
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"I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today."
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"People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community."
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"We recognize the need to adapt to a changing competitive environment."
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"The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it."
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"It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth."
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"It's in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer - what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go."
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"The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family."
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"I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy."
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"I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across."
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"I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?"
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"So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics."
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"It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift."
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"I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century."
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"We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived."
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"In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies!"
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"We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else."
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"Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce."
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"Connectivity just can't be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation, and that's why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can."
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"I don't know anything about cars. A business is a business, and I think I can learn about cars. I'm not that old, and I think the business principles are the same."
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"Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life."
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"Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world."
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"Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change."
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