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Quotes by Businessman
"When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it."
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"Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals."
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"No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes."
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"Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top."
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"I am very proud to follow the rules of our company."
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"It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do."
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"Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company."
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"Later the Administration wanted me to actually sell all remaining surplus by running the War Assets Corporation. I said I couldn't do it without some shoe leather."
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"Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people."
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"The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits."
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"When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English."
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"Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it."
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"There's no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor."
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"The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads."
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"The thought in my mind was that I must be a good merchant. If I were a good merchant, the rest would probably take care of itself."
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"Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated."
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"I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision."
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"Nobody's ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there's some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway."
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"I wasn't ever advised by Scott Sullivan of anything ever being wrong."
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"Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you."
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"Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system."
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"If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more."
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"Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today and forever and thereby to be of service to the idea of eternal Germany."
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"You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets."
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"Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do."
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"If you look - look at - I mean, look at what's going on with your gasoline prices. They're going to go to $5, $6, $7 and we don't have anybody in Washington that calls OPEC and says, 'Fellas, it's time. It's over. You're not going to do it anymore.'"
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"It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life."
Life,
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"As I said, I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about partner brands."
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"There is a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe. The policies of the Bush administration and the Sharon administration contribute to that. It's not specifically anti-Semitism, but it does manifest itself in anti-Semitism as well."
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"Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character."
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"There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win."
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"For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable."
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"Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting."
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"The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips."
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"When I come to work each day, whether as a commentator for TheStreet.com or a host of Mad Money With Jim Cramer, I have only one thought in mind: helping people with their money."
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"It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing."
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"Second issue is the rapidly accelerating increase in the number of vulnerabilities that get discovered every day. And, equally importantly, is the shortening of time between the discovery of the vulnerability and the release of an exploit."
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"Besides, Weebles are too hard to draw - they just end up looking like eggs, not people."
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"I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying."
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"Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value."
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"The magic fades too fastthe scent of summer never lasts the nights turn hollow and vast but nothing remains...nothing lasts."
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"See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too."
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"The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow."
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"While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the more important aspect involving putting the right process in place."
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"The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen."
Will,
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"He'll come back to visit, but not to stay, not to live."
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"I believe that the profits will come from the quality of your creative products. Since the beginning, I've always wanted to develop a self-feeding circle of creative productions: the positive financial returns from one show would be used to develop and create a new show, and so on."
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