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Quotes by Businessman

"Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers."

"I like to not be too involved in the beginning and during the process so as to keep this fresh look and be able to give constructive recommendation on the final production."


"I had to actually purchase a book to learn the API and write the client. It was pretty frustrating trying to learn the API and develop a product quickly."

"People are looking for original content in many different places, as are advertisers. This takes us into a whole new ballgame."


"All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it."

"We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100 friends and family, and within a week we had 100,000 people sign the petition."

"When we compile a petition, we often have members go to their representative's or Senator's offices and deliver it in person. This way they can experience a real connection with the staff."

"Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean."

"Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems."

"Brother Jones is not my product, and I am not responsible for anything he writes or says."

"You touched my heart...ever so softlyand I realizedtears had never been...merely saltand the rainOh the Rain!had never been merely water."


"Everything looks nicer when you win. The girls are prettier. The cigars taste better. The trees are greener."

"Business is difficult. But it could be approached two ways: Seriously, or with the same way you're doing your job, with entertainment aspect, with pleasure, with fun. And we decided to try to make it as fun that we do our creativity."

"Australians are pretty blunt and we say things how they really are."


"Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but we survived the depression."

"White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion."

"Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds of movies to wow audiences with technology."

"In simple terms, we are aligning our business today with the way we believe future systems are going to be designed, acquired and maintained."


"I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's."


"I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen."

"Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice."

"My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled."

"That day, my first day on the job, was September 11, 2001! I was actually being recognized by Switzerland the very day that the World Trade Center was hit."

"People who take risks are the people you'll lose against."

"There's accountability in the mutual fund industry. And they've been tremendous engines of wealth for people and they're going to continue to be so."

"A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food."

"Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways."

"And, strangely, this one of the few things in life that the third, the latter, the buy with our eyes closed has actually done better than everybody else."

"My message to the kids and our fans is hockey's a great game. There's a lot of hockey being played at all levels. Get involved, do it. We will be back and we will be back better than ever and hopefully as soon as possible. Don't give up on the game. It's too good."

"Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops."


"The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it."

"Every woman has the right to be beautiful."

"Show interest in all people, not just those from whom you want something. Making people feel important and good about themselves is just the right thing to do."

"Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success."

"If we can just take a few companies, and use those as models, as examples, to show the rest of corporate America how they can become more competitive, that's what I'd like to do and that's what I hope to do."

"Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent."

"The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents."

"To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them."


"Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out."


"One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them."

"The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man."

"The executive moves we are announcing today will strengthen American for the long-term future and reflect well on the depth of the Company's management team."


"I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly."

"They get, you know, whatever they want from their earnings, and their earnings go into their own company."

"Our technology is very scalable. Our software can accommodate enormous numbers of clients. It's a marvelous opportunity. We'll keep developing products."

"Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business."
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