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Quotes by Businessman
"If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about."
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"Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers."
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"Our ships, God be thanked, have received little hurt."
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"The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come."
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"It's important not to limit the amount of their own money that candidates can spend, but to give other people access to enough money to run competitive races."
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"Today more people believe in UFOs than believe that Social Security will take care of their retirement."
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"You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality."
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"We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season."
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"The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we've always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts."
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"This is what I think is very essential... moderation can be good for you."
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"Because we only feed in the United States less than 1 per cent of the meals, most of them are eaten elsewhere. Most meals are eaten at home. So to make McDonald's the target is not going to solve the problem."
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"If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied."
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"We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life."
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"What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together."
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"I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in the next 12 months, and we've had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we're predicting being back at double-digit revenue growth in fiscal year '06."
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"The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house."
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"As one of nine men, DiMaggio is the best player that ever lived."
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"A store's best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization."
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"You are ever the only onei want to giveall the peachesin my heart tothe only one by whomi want them bruised."
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"The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific."
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"I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education."
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"As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole."
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"Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership."
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"I continue to have a special pride and passion for AOL, and I strongly believe that AOL - once the leading Internet company in the world - can return to its past greatness."
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"Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world."
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"Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004."
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"If the planters carry politics into the fields they will find it bad business."
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"Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said."
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"We need work as much as we need rest; the two complement each other, one drawing power and enjoyability from the other. Rest is sweet after work, and work enjoyable after a good rest."
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"I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals."
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"My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country."
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"In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive."
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"The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad."
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"A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts."
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"HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues."
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"The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line."
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"I would rather havefeelings without wordsthan words without feelings."
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"Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is tragedy. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance creates lack. Ignorance creates disease. Ignorance will shorten your life. Ignorance will empty your life and leave you with the husks, nothing to account for. No, ignorance is not bliss. "
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"One of the things that has been truly incredible to observe though, is the amount of venture investment that has gone into early stage security technology."
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"Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community."
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"People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents."
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"I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive."
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"No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society."
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"I am determined to go through the horror of this world."
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