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Quotes by Businessman
"I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups."
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"We are moving toward a global economy. One way of approaching that is to pull the covers over your head. Another is to say: It may be more complicated - but that's the world I am going to live in, I might as well be good at it."
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"The Internet and Yahoo are firmly established as 'must buys' for brand advertising."
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"Jerry Rice made the decision and we honestly tried to accommodate him the best way we can."
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"Google is making a huge investment in developing the Ajax approach."
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"First, we have to lower our costs to levels that are more competitive. This will prevent the lower-cost airlines from pushing us out of the markets we want to serve. We've made great progress on this front, but we need to keep pushing."
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"If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry."
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"Well, the sales of our products clearly demonstrate their value to businesses and to individuals."
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"The only sound approach to collective bargaining is to work out an agreement that clarifies the rights and responsibilities of the parties, establishes principles and operates to the advantage of all concerned."
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"Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term."
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"No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps."
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"The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential."
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"I myself am a builder and get totally excited about building Yahoo! as a brand and building it into a bigger and better company. That's what I intend to do."
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"I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days, which was the 1960s, the institutional salesman was making about $100,000 a year. I thought that was just an enormous amount of money."
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"Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays."
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"The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process."
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"To love what you do and feel that it matters how could anything be more fun?"
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"People want to build new circuits around the world and they say: 'We'll come to Silverstone and have a look how it's done', and I tell them to stay away."
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"The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence."
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"I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done."
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"Leave no stone unturned to help your clients realize maximum profits from their investment."
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"Well we have a good working relationship with Microsoft at the development level. But let's not kid ourselves, this is a company with enormous resources and talented people, and there is a certain pride that comes along with that for them and for us."
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"In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships."
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"The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver."
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"Writing good ads is easy when you have something to say."
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"I nicknamed everyone in the gym. It was easier than remembering their names."
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"The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose."
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"You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out."
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"We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we've added some extras that people aren't used to finding on Southwest."
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"The ultimate test of a finished account executive is his ability to write a sound marketing plan."
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"The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people."
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"We see ourselves as first helping to open up markets to competition."
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"I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government's racial policies, and recent events have tended to confirm my opinion."
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"I want to read every book that's writtenhear every song that was sungI want to gaze at every cloudand hold the zing of each fruit on my tongue."
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"Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough."
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"Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here."
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"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."
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"For me, the most fun is change or growth. There are definitely elements of both that I like. Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast."
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"Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people were being left out and could be left behind."
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"The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do deserve to lose money."
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