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Quotes by Businessman
"One problem was that my direct testimony was in writing, so a lot of people didn't get to see it. I hope they see it, because I think it built a very strong case."
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"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations."
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"Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil."
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"If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself."
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"A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence."
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"Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas."
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"Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested."
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"But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey."
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"Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school."
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"A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward."
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"The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician."
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"We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds."
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"To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people."
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"You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut."
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"Over time, the product we produce has been consistently successful here in America and around the world. Apparently, we are doing something right."
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"In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else."
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"You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon."
Will,
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"I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business."
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"We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation."
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"Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs."
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"Ajax is an important development for Web applications, and its importance is only going to grow."
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"Over the near term there is clearly the opportunity to work with Microsoft to do to a better job of creating a more secure Windows experience for users around the world."
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"You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent."
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"Sometimes divorce is better than marriage."
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"We are No. 1 worldwide by quite a margin on the client side and expanding, according to IDC and others, every single quarter. Our expectation is that the industry will consolidate and that more of our competitors will exit."
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"Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But again, those advantages won't mean much if we don't do a great job with the basics of our business."
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"I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type."
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"The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen."
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"But once you have satisfied your material needs, which I think every wealth creator should - the house, the car, the plane, the boat - what comes next?"
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"There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different."
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"My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother was a great example for me. She was a working mother with a good career."
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"Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us."
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"My job involves a lot of different skills now - I'm as much entrepreneur and management consultant as anything else these days - but IA is still my favorite part of the work I do."
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"My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world."
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"We aim to express the passion of our members in something actionable that we can all in fact do."
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"You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog."
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"Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life."
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"Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way."
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"If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It's a process of innovation."
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"It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks."
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"The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy financial losses, we have consistently walked away and have done so again."
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"Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin."
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