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Quotes by Businessman
"It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software."
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"To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success."
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"Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up."
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"Poetry has saved me on occasions when people couldn't."
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"Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us."
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"The corporate killer downsizing is directly responsive to what the mutual funds have wanted."
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"One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways."
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"Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis."
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"The NFL today has bigger, stronger, bodies than ever, moving faster than ever, hitting a stationary object harder than ever before - so the physics of the hit have changed."
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"We think if the economy remains weak that we could see mortgage rates trail down and we think that we could see rates below seven percent into early next year."
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"Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work."
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"I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in."
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"Goals are set in life to enable concentrated and directed effort to be employed toward a desired end. Without goals, it will be easy to derail, and it will also be hard to track progress."
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"There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension."
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"The thing that contributes to anyone's reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly enough."
Goal,
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"But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position?"
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"The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do."
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"If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so."
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"Patience is the art of concealing your impatience."
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"It's so important to experience what your customers are experiencing and listen to their suggestions."
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"I think that I could have been take apart if the bear market continued, but I waited three years before I felt the bear market was over and I was right."
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"If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today."
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"Kids used to tease me unmercifully about that name."
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"We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice."
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"I want people who will stand up to me. People who are not afraid to say exactly what's on their minds, even though that's probably not what I want to hear. That's what I want."
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"Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving."
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"Nobody has ever built a reliable peer-to-peer service, where people can really access all the music they want in one location,... Once I got it into my head, I couldn't imagine the media space without one."
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"The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters."
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"Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we'll get somewhere."
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"I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world."
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"I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission."
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"I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies."
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"I never take advice from anyone more messed up than I am."
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"I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer."
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"You are the ocean to my eyes."
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"Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is."
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"A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition."
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"Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content."
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"You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term."
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"Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders."
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"I cannot separate the finances of India from those of England. If the finances of the Indian Government receive any severe and irreparable check, will not the resources of England be called upon to meet the emergency, and to supply the deficiency?"
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"Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that."
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"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do."
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"When I am starting a new game, I have to program it for the Apple, because I want to get all of the markets."
Want,
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