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Quotes by Businessman
"Over the years, I have developed a pretty good Rolodex."
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"The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river."
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"I've been involved with Carnegie Hall for the last 13 years, and Chairman for the last six. I feel really good about what we've done growing our educational programs there, building a board that has made Carnegie Hall really a world-class institution."
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"I think that the public is in and the public is in big, and the public is not, I don't think going to pull out because the public knows what I said about 1987."
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"You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for."
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"I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life."
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"Well, I don't know about the dizzy height, but I always thought they were going to be pretty big."
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"Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled."
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"The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies."
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"We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers."
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"Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them."
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"You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself."
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"I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis."
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"Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect."
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"In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer."
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"As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased."
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"Some of the analysts were saying, Now you're a cash cow, there's no growth at all, pay it all out in dividends, give me it all, you can't invest wisely."
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"Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius."
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"The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present."
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"I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process."
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"I mean that what makes me a professional, but the market itself has been fabulous during this whole period and I've got to give the market credit before I give myself credit."
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"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."
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"The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy."
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"As my men could profitably employ themselves on these streams, I moved slowly along, averaging not more than five or six miles per day and sometimes remained two days at the same encampment."
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"What that means initially is that you have alot of products that are only slightly better games in the same genre on another machine - and the titles that really take advantage of the machine come along later."
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"There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop."
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"You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset."
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"Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information."
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"Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying."
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"I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats."
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"I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view."
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"It is important to note that a transitional phase has to be uncomfortable for you to move on to the next stage, lest procrastination stymies you."
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"So you have to force yourself out of a comfort zone and really try to figure out what are the key ingredients, the key skill sets, the key perspectives that are necessary, and then figure out a way to attract the very best people to fill those particular roles."
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"All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected."
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"You make autumn misttaste like champagne and turn winter raininto the elixir of life itself."
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"There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline."
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"Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap."
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"There are tons of people who are late to trends by nature and adopt a trend after it's no longer in fashion. They exist in mutual funds. They exist in clothes. They exist in cars. They exist in lifestyles."
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"One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing."
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"Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit."
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"Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard, to do business."
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"You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning."
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"A rain like melting pillows a rain so beautifulI could neverhave let go ofif not certainthat someday...it would find its wayinto my poem."
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"What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career."
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"I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience."
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