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Quotes by Businessman
"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
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"Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in."
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"When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier."
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"Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals."
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"It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle."
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"So I picked a field where I had a little exposure. Where I thought I could have an enormous challenge, and have a chance to really do some good, to be a pioneer in an area, and not just be like everyone else."
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"For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk."
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"By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent."
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"Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make."
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"Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance."
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"It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor."
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"The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time."
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"Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business."
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"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own."
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"Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value."
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"The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell."
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"The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled."
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"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."
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"There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else."
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"If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with how things will play out."
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"I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world... If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers."
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"Thinking will not overcome fear but action will."
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"I think that there are changes that have occurred in technology that make is that more people can have the same level of information that I have. My advantage is that I'm very good at interpreting the information."
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"What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good."
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"We like the size of the company today given the environment and have no plans to split it up and make it smaller."
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"If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent."
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"Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people."
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"We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn."
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"Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes."
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"The key is growth margins went in the right direction, unit volume increased quarter on quarter, and expenses came down. We threw off over $300 million in cash. All of those were in the right direction. So I think we're on our way."
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"A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more."
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"Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness."
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"But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms."
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"I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half."
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"I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information."
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"Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant."
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"With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly."
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"A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way."
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"As long as I own this football team and long after I'm gone, they will always be the Washington Redskins."
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"Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people."
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"Control your own destiny or someone else will."
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"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."
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"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."
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"The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership."
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"Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it."
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"My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business."
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"I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful."
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"One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn't had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem."
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"Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking."
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