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Quotes by Businessman
"I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated."
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"For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio."
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"If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago."
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"When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece.Ford replied,''Produce it anyway."
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"Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none."
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"Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so."
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"There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil fuels."
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"I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community."
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"You cannot work with men who won't work with you."
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"Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality."
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"Right now I own shares of companies in 28 countries."
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"People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills."
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"If someone wants to transmit a high-quality service with no interruptions and 'guaranteed this, guaranteed that,' they should be willing to pay for that."
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"We think we have a responsibility. And I think it's important for all of us in the Western world to realize that we've all been blessed a lot and if you go to these parts they don't have a lot, even before the tsunami."
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"Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality."
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"I generally wake up, exercise and read through a huge amount of newspapers. I get to the office somewhere between 7:30 and 8:00 - my brothers and I are always the first ones in."
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"I wouldn't call it radical; I would call it enthusiasm for progress."
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"It is the potential for economic growth that provides the basis for the development of countries, for bringing to people essential goods and services, such as water to drink and facilities for healthcare."
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"The initial organisation, we called ourselves the Network Working Group, consisted of 6 to 10 people. We then quickly grew to 30 people and then to 50 people."
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"There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is."
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"Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead."
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"I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up."
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"In my experience, problems most frequently arise from those who report for television, with little field experience in your area but an insatiable appetite for a sound bite."
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"Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered."
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"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."
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"You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it."
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"When it comes to helping out, I don't believe in doing it for the media attention. My goal is to support the organizations that need help."
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"We also had good software in the key categories and more focus on the gameplaying capability, so more of the marketing effort was targeted at game customers."
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"You must know in your heart before anyone else does what is going to be good and then follow through."
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"This will result in wells that will make a substantial improvement in the recovery factor just because they are absolutely in the proper place within the reservoir for the purposes of drainage."
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"Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next."
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"But what Web services suggest is that the connection is always there between an application that is resident somewhere in the cloud, and a user who is somewhere on the other end of a connection."
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"Well, you would have to say what is the criteria to determine the success of any merger? It would have to be that the companies are stronger financially, that they took market share, and they are on a very steady footing in terms of their performance."
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"The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership."
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"We've already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of Foundations, potentially with government support, is promising - more than promising, I think, it's substantial."
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"I think we're proving ourselves as we go along. The past several months our strategy has been evolutionary - making maximum advantage of our client browser, as well as our enterprise software for people who want to build Web sites."
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"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right."
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"It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar."
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"The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war."
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"I can't tell you how important it was for us to be successful in japan."
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"There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster."
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"Through their play Barbara imagined their lives as adults. They used the dolls to reflect the adult world around them. They would sit and carry on conversations, making the dolls real people."
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"A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention."
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"It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet. In the end, the price that anyone can provide for voice transmission on the Net will trend toward zero."
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"Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC."
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"You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart."
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"My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended."
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"But once you buy a company, you are married. You are married to that company."
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