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Quotes by Businessman
"Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change."
70
"Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty."
70
"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."
70
"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."
70
"The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all sorts of misunderstandings, and to a certain extent, people do not get the full picture from the media. A lot of foreigners have few opportunities to visit China, and a lot of Chinese people do not have the chance to go to Europe or to the West."
70
"Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem."
69
"This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control."
69
"Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one."
69
"To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success."
69
"What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold."
69
"We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should."
69
"If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?"
69
"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."
69
"We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today."
69
"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."
68
"My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her."
68
"A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus."
68
"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
68
"And stay, my dearstay...forever, as my quiet song,in my lilac dawn."
68
"The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol."
68
"It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages."
68
"Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, as long as money will last to buy it."
68
"You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own."
68
"We tell anybody who asks that we think Apple is making a big mistake by not being compatible."
68
"In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy."
67
"It's not the tools that you have faith in. Tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not."
67
"Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful."
67
"Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other."
67
"When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task."
67
"This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth."
67
"Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it."
67
"The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different."
67
"Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1."
67
"You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you."
67
"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG."
67
"Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time."
67
"The goal of winning is not losing two times in a row."
67
"Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again."
67
"No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking."
66
"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."
66
"The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek."
66
"If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure."
66
"Having an aim is the key to achieving your best."
66
"The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy."
66
"In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that."
66
"If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing."
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