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Quotes by Businessman
"If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes."
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"We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries."
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"You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change."
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"I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts."
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"We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn."
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"Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief."
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"Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations."
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"The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different."
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"There is no such thing as a permanent advertising success."
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"I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in."
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"At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right."
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"High expectations are the key to everything."
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"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste."
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"I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about."
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"Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make."
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"Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something."
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"Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe."
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"If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants."
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"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy."
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"In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance."
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"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito."
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"I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood."
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"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star."
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"Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway."
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"Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes."
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"Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it."
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"A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more."
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"It is always the start that requires the greatest effort."
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"Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness."
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"Take one more step because it might be the last one needed."
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"If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars."
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"Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation."
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"With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly."
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"Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice."
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"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world."
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"Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s."
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"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own."
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"Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana."
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"We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes."
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"It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme."
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"Roger Revelle died of a heart attack three months after the Cosmos story was printed. Oh, how I wish he were still alive today. He might be able to stop this scientific silliness and end the global warming scam. He might well stand beside me as a global warming denier."
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"In advertising not to be different is virtually suicidal."
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"In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally."
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"There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on."
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"No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming."
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