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Quotes by Businessman
"I am a great admirer of Sen. Frist, who is a nationally known heart surgeon and well known in Nashville as a great family man who has dedicated his life to helping others and, in that regard, he has followed in his father's footsteps."
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"It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming."
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"There is nothing to be embarrassed about being profitable."
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"I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs."
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"Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche."
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"It's the company itself, but most of these mutual fund companies, the guy who runs the company is just a fact totem and the guy who runs the money is the power. But we really don't know who they are."
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"I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death."
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"The game has kept faith with the public, maintaining its old admission price for nearly thirty years while other forms of entertainment have doubled and tripled in price. And it will probably never change."
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"I'm not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused."
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"When the PC was launched, people knew it was important."
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"A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether."
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"Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out."
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"The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate."
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"It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land."
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"Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years."
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"Are there challenges? Absolutely. But in aggregate, this is a very strong and valuable company."
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"If he hadn't done that interview with Bashir, he wouldn't be there now. That was the first time he ever did an interview like that. He was afraid of something like that all along. And it happened."
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"Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower."
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"I never thought anything like that would have gone on."
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"I want to buy them, because historically these have been great engines of enrichment for the middle class, 'historically' meaning now for a good ten years."
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"I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy."
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"For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution."
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"Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster."
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"Take our own company as an example: We're living proof, we jump with our own parachutes."
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"Companies are starting to measure how effective their customer service is and trying to understand what they can do to improve the customer service process."
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"Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing."
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"The first thing the secretary types is the boss."
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"In 1979 I teamed up with my friend and business partner, Bill DeWitt, and together we formed an oil and gas company that invested through limited partnerships in oil and gas exploration."
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"Teamwork was more accepted 40 years ago."
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"An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others."
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"Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s."
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"Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason."
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"These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character."
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"The fact of the matter is, most of our orders are not supersized. Less than five per cent are supersized - that's never mentioned. The whole issue has been supersized itself."
Fact,
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"If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search."
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"If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control."
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"It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference."
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"I invest in funds myself even though I run my own fund for my daughters."
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"No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit."
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"I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career."
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"Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense."
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"We are a company that promotes 100% within the company."
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"No trade will be made unless they want the thing more than they want their money."
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"I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous."
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"Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business."
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"If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspective. You've got to have some north star you're aiming for, and you just believe somehow you'll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point."
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"Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia."
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"But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit."
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