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Quotes by Businessman
"Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves."
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"And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy."
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"You may keep Turkey on the map of Europe, you may call the country by the name of Turkey if you like, but do not think you can keep up the Mahommedan rule in the country."
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"When they get a 50-inch waist and a gorilla butt, it's ugly looking - and I think bodybuilding has become ugly looking."
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"Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics."
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"If you can't find the next McDonald's, I'll find the next McDonald's. But it's vital to be with people who with looking for 'em, because they do exist. They are created."
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"The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed."
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"What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome."
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"It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology."
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"It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself."
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"If we build something great, like we have at Travelers Group so far, a whole host of people benefit."
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"The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records."
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"Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard."
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"Success in crime always invites to worse deeds."
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"And certainly don't get caught by the press having too much to drink, you now, that sort of thing."
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"This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive."
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"Good will is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy."
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"The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type."
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"Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial."
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"I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance."
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"First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation."
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"I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success."
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"I really think it is amazing that people actually buy software."
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"How beautiful it is to excel, and the goodness of giving from your heart."
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"There were around 1,000 stores when I was made president."
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"There is no such thing as national advertising. All advertising is local and personal. It's one man or woman reading one newspaper in the kitchen or watching TV in the den."
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"I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act."
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"Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also."
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"Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey."
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"I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project."
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"I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability."
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"I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out."
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"There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success."
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"When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will."
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"It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity."
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"The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on the Pacific by the annual addition of over fifty million dollars to the circulating medium."
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"Too many ads that try not to go over the reader's head end up beneath his notice."
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"We report the news. Fox talks about the news."
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"In all planing you make a list and you set priorities."
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"There are any number of people who profess to be good Christian people who are willing to believe all kinds of things on suspicion. Now that is not the way the Bible directs for Christian people to do."
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"When you are led by values, it doesn't cost your business, it helps your business."
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"I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient."
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"The prisoners eyed the clothes some time, and laughed a good deal among themselves before they put them on."
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"I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement."
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"The power of the computer is starting to spread."
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"Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation."
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"Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes."
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