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Quotes by Businessman
"The danger that we have right now are people who get the same information as I do and, therefore, think they'll reach the same conclusions that haven't traded as long, don't have bear claws up and down their backs like I do."
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"It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school."
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"People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned."
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"This is just the United States. All the rest of the countries, all over the world, are proud of Michael. It's here we have the most trouble out of them."
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"We're no longer a small business; we're a large organization spread around the world. I can't imagine Netscape growing as fast as it has if it weren't for the way we use our products."
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"People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar."
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"It's a growing trend. Viewers are our customers, but so are advertisers. And advertisers want different ways to reach our viewers."
Want,
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"Happy is harder than money. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy hasn't got money."
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"The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music."
31
"But I think traveling around and going around the world and making arrangements for moving around is the most difficult thing, 'cuz you don't know what's going to happen."
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"The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product."
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"And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years."
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"Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work."
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"It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most."
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"Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make."
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"There has been only one manager, and his name is John McGraw."
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"Furthermore, the spirit of enterprise which had its first intellectual development in England has especially flourished here as well as throughout all of Canada, while the same spirit has become less virile in the land of its origin."
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"Our Fly Smart philosophy is about investing only on those points of differentiation that pay for themselves, that earn a revenue premium commensurate with what it costs us to provide that product or service."
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"It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven't been able to read the Constitution and do what it says."
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"If you accept that security is a process, and if you can eliminate the human interaction or intervention in that process by automating more, that is a good thing."
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"A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable."
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"My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation."
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"So let's say you're using XYZ product and you want to do something very sophisticated. You subscribe to this thing, you hit a button, and a CA expert pops up in video."
Want,
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"Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do."
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"Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock."
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"Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?"
30
"The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away."
30
"Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors confidence in Canada."
30
"We are having Internet Governance discussions and meetings and a very large number of people are discussing the future of the Internet who have no clue as to what the Internet is except that it is important and that they have to be involved."
30
"Most jobs today are still structured the same way they were 50 years ago, when most families had someone who could stay at home."
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"Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate."
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"I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook."
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"The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people."
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"The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world."
30
"People keep coming up to me and asking, 'How does it feel to be banned for life?' Banned for life. I wasn't banned for life. There was never a word of suspension, probation or ban in that agreement. It was never meant to be part of it."
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"Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want."
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"It's the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing."
30
"For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something."
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"If you can get some of the devil's money to use for the Lord's work, if you have to borrow it, it is all right and carry on the work."
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"Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday."
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"In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved."
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"A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted."
30
"The globalization of the capital market is actually part of economic globalization. This will create a change in the entire world economy, not just restricted to some fields in some countries."
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"I'm as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things."
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"Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles."
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"And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time."
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"The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat."
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