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Quotes by Businessman
"Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service."
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"Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence."
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"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."
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"The only time to buy these is on a day with no "y" in it."
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"I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places."
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"Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out."
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"There are no ugly women, only lazy ones."
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"Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it."
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"You must constantly change and adapt to a new environment."
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"Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game."
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"I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success."
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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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"Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world."
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"The last thing you want to do, unless it's a very unusual situation, is to invest money."
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"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."
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"Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it."
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"We tell anybody who asks that we think Apple is making a big mistake by not being compatible."
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"Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them."
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"Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value."
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"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said."
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"Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know."
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"Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful."
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"Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped."
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"The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights."
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"Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy."
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"This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth."
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"Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life."
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"Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself."
Life,
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"I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm, it makes for a fast learning curve."
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"I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all, but it predisposes us to accept a kind of world in which these things happen."
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"I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out."
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"A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way."
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"We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes."
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"It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor."
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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 anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it."
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"If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes."
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"You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change."
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"The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy."
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"I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here."
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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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"The same Source that gave you the idea, will give you the means to see it through."
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"Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief."
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"Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations."
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"I remember very clearly at the first budget review having a pretty direct conversation with the head of manufacturing... We began to get huge improvements in productivity and responsiveness. I got a chance to see that firsthand."
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