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Quotes by Businessman
"A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge."
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"There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice."
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"Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world."
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"What you do now will be in the past right after you do it."
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"You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing."
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"The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery."
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"Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them."
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"During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think."
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"The only time to buy these is on a day with no "y" in it."
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"I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places."
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"In advertising not to be different is virtually suicidal."
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"Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration."
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"Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system."
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"The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule."
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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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"I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race."
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"The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them."
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"The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights."
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"The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds."
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"The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone."
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"I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half."
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"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."
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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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"Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image."
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"There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft."
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"Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities."
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"The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life."
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"Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there's another side to the coin, and you can't remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important-creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could."
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"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."
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"Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher."
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"When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either."
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"The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency."
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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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"In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance."
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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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"We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out."
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"The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body."
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"The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt."
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"People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters."
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"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."
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"I remember very clearly at the first budget review having a pretty direct conversation with the head of manufacturing... We began to get huge improvements in productivity and responsiveness. I got a chance to see that firsthand."
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"This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50."
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"Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness."
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