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Quotes by Businessman
"Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force."
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"When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough."
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"My worth changes with every choice I make and every action I take. I can choose myself to uselessness or to being valuable."
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"Throughout the lead-up to the war, CNN worked hard to air all sides of the story. We had a regular segment called Voices of Dissent in which we spent time covering antiwar protests and interviewing those who were opposed to the war with Iraq."
36
"I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure."
36
"The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets."
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"Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells."
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"All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment."
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"Over the last several quarters we have been growing faster in Asia and Europe than any other place on the planet. We have 18 percent of the global PC share, about 12 percent in Europe, and 8 percent in Asia."
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"The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager."
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"I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue."
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"Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves."
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"The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently."
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"Go into something because you really like it, and then do it with a drive and enthusiasm so that it isn't work."
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"There will always be a certain element of extremists on either side, left or right, who no mainstream news outlet is going to satisfy."
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"As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession."
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"There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone."
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"You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that."
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"But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from."
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"The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act."
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"The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with."
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"Charlie and I were never blessed with children."
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"No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it, you really don't know what's going to happen until you do it."
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"One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction."
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"The party line is that stocks historically have outperformed all other investment plans."
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"We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world."
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"I mean I wasn't a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and, and owned founder's stock."
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"I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage."
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"To me, it's really important to drive change through a team because one person, while the buck has to stop with somebody, the company is just too big for one person."
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"Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being."
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"I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then."
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"What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds."
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"I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my own money."
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"If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?"
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"I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way."
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"Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again."
36
"QuickBooks - the very fact that we could even dream to make something in the business arena, and that it would then succeed - was a total revolution to me."
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"Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses."
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"On my passage thither, I discovered nothing remarkable in the features of the country."
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"We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity."
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"I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble."
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"Well, the security business has been growing. I think security is one of those areas where it's to some degree not linear but maybe exponential growth."
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"During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures."
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"Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults."
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"Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes."
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