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Quotes by Businessman
"In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone."
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"A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some direct influence on the government."
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"It's important to do research. I do that in every play, every actor does."
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"Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance."
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"Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama."
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"Well Web services are nothing more than a way for users to interact with applications."
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"The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices."
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"Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?"
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"I will forever be collidingwith a billion unnamedundiscovered stars, each of uson our own orbital paths."
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"I just think that most of the people are very close minded."
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"People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year."
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"One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government."
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"I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so."
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"I only want people around me who can do the impossible."
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"No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more that pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto."
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"As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles."
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"Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change."
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"The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle."
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"At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business."
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"But we had a pretty diversified portfolio of businesses around the world and things tended to offset each other. But one or two years ago, we had a lot of things happening at the same time."
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"That's why I ended up leaving school - because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed we could make something of it."
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"There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past."
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"I believe in nurturing creativity and offering a haven for creators, enabling them to develop their ideas to the fullest. With more and more talented creators being drawn to Cirque in an environment that fulfills them, these are ideal to continue developing great new shows."
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"Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still."
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"I think this year we'll open up 900 gross, we're closing some, so the net count is lower, but the 900 are spread all over the place. Some of the closures are relocations, where you're moving it to another place in the marketplace."
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"Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology."
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"My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers."
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"Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee."
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"Live out of your imagination, not your history."
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"I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income."
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"These charges that have been made against me, that Prof. Prescott has made, has charged against me, that I denied the atonement in conversation with him, are absolutely false."
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"I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it."
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"If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it."
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"You know, I like to think that I will subscribe very much to the core Republican principles of small government. Making a small number of rules and getting out of the way. Keeping taxes low. Creating an environment for small businesses to grow and thrive."
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"From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness."
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"To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business."
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"Value people on their potential, not on their history."
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"A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature."
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"If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees."
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"I think it took us nine years to get one million subscribers to AOL, and then in the next nine years we went from one million to 35 million."
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"If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down."
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"My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor."
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"I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself."
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"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes."
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"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!"
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"Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals."
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