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Quotes by Businessman

"The main benefit of the book for the more experienced practitioners is as an evangelical tool. The book will give you some ways of expressing the value and importance of your work that you may not have had before."


"Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world."

"I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames."

"Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort."


"The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do."

"Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black."

"The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing."

"Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction."

"Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners."

"If the communist party is controlling China, they represent China."

"Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits."

"I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away."

"I believe that one-product wonders come and go."

"This is just the beginning of a new era for America's workers."

"But sometimes in the midst of worry, anxiety and hard work, it has been pretty hard to bear all these false reports going about the country - to see my friends alienated and being made to believe things that were absolutely false."

"If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all."


"It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field."

"No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence."

"Give me a highly successful unionized industry."

"The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future."

"All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance."


"A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships."

"Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective."


"Once I was able to take care of myself and my children, I then wanted to share."

"But indeed a market like California is not good for Enron."


"The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm."

"There are absolutely no problems that had anything to do with Jeff's departure."

"Americans now know that housing prices can go down and they can go down by 10, 20, 30, and in some cases, 40 or 50 percent. We know they can go down. But five years ago, we thought they could only go up."

"If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible."

"I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying."

"A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation."

"Adjust your makeup to the light in which your wear it."


"We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces."

"Transferring successfully to the next generation means producing work that's as good as or better than the work of the first generation that founded the agency."

"If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom."

"The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics."

"What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power."


"I don't have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn't do my job."


"And I thought I'd always like some form of business, I didn't know what kind of business I'd go in."

"It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job."


"Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing. We have a very high percentage of our users who often tell others about our search engine."


"It took us three years to even come close to catching up with the demand a little bit."


"Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world."

"People aren't going to talk about it except me and that is communication and the visits I have personally had in our meetings with our store managers saying if you do these things you will be terminated, period."

"That it is logical, fair and reasonable to maintain the purchasing power of an hour's work in terms of goods and services the employee must purchase in his daily living."

"Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas."
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