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Quotes by Businessman
"Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing which is becoming more and more indispensable."
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"Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities."
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"I always knew the importance of it, since I was three or four years old my mother used to feed me wine and water. I grew up with wine as liquid food."
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"Our embedded reporters during the war agreed to guidelines established by the military."
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"An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes."
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"The Anti-Slavery public have generously responded to our appeal, and sent the means to enable us to fit them out well, to pay their passages, supply them with many useful articles and give the Missionaries money to sustain themselves for a while."
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"Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels."
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"Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes."
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"When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want."
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"Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes."
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"Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, 'You're fired!'"
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"These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri."
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"If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time."
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"The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive."
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"There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understand each other, appreciate each other, help each other."
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"Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money."
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"But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want."
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"Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown."
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"Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels."
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"There has been no appreciable improvement in our country's ability to produce the kind of talent we need in this space. There have been some small initiatives around the country that have been noteworthy."
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"When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions."
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"The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time."
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"When I go in to see people - and I sell an occasional ad now - I never say, 'Help me because I am black' or 'Help me because I am a minority.' I always talk about what we can do for them."
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"Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish."
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"The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux."
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"And so the idea was, well maybe you can take an Atari video game machine, where people plug in a game cartridge, and plug in a modem, and tie that into a telephone, and essentially turn that game in the machine into an interactive terminal."
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"The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property."
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"You appear to have a good project... we wish you well in this endeavor."
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"A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation."
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"When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing."
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"Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking."
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"I think this is also a great time to invest in private equity, helping companies grow from the ground up."
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"Value is what people are willing to pay for it."
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"We hold on to poetry because it lights a fire in our soul and keeps our bodies warm."
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"If any fall by the hand of violence, others will continue the blessed work."
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"The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams."
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"There's only one Elizabeth like me and that's the Queen."
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"If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into fishing fleets that are going to exacerbate the problem by over-fishing is not the way to preserve the underlying asset."
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"Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places."
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"The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It's just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense."
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"And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus."
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"By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another."
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"You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business."
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"Our thoughts fly therefore by themselves in this festive hour of our plant community, to the man whom we thank for the ressurection of our Nation: Adolf Hitler, the patron of German labour and German art."
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"It is to be savored like a seabreeze-whispereddream...in the mysteriousblue minutesbefore dawnlike a secretinfatuation.... like slowlanguorous sipsof green tea... like a lingeringglimpsea self-wrappedparadiselike his name upon my lips."
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"One of Netscape's main attractions to customers from Day One is that we provide alternatives. And that's cherished by many customers - certainly not all."
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"You have to pay a lot of attention to what's important, what's permanent, what's real."
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