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Quotes by Businessman
"Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world."
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"Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher."
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"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said."
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"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
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"A company is only as good as the people it keeps."
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"Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty."
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"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."
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"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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"Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations."
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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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"What you do now will be in the past right after you do it."
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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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"Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees."
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"The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt."
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"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX."
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"A peaceful mind is a powerful mind...Set your mind at ease and take charge of yourself."
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"Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make."
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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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"Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business."
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"If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like."
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"During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think."
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"On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance."
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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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"Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life."
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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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"Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one."
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"I think the support of the other team at AOL and everybody's really shared passion and belief about this and - saying that some day everybody was going to be on line."
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"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."
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"If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes."
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"It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme."
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"There is no such thing as a permanent advertising success."
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"I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race."
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"I'd learned enough about circuitry in high school electronics to know how to drive a TV and get it to draw - shapes of characters and things."
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"The goal of winning is not losing two times in a row."
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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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"What constitutes worth? In short, I would say the valuable attributes you have in relation to how you can productively use them... All attributes have value, but they have worth if they are used productively."
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"When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors."
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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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"Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know."
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"Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins."
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"The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges."
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"The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone."
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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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"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG."
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"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."
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"If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?"
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