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Quotes by Businessman
"The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying."
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"With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly."
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"No, sir, I'm not saying that charming, witty and warm copy won't sell. I'm just saying I've seen thousands of charming, witty campaigns that didn't sell."
62
"My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business."
62
"Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped."
62
"There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can."
62
"Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged."
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"So I think instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer."
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"When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it."
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"If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right."
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"Now some alien force seems to have come and captured the Dodgers. I don't know what happened to my Dodgers."
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"It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up."
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"I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation."
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"I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it."
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"The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell."
61
"The greatest power is not money power, but political power."
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"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right."
61
"If you don't sell, it's not the product that's wrong, it's you."
61
"You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year."
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"You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change."
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"So we believed that strategic alliances and partnerships were critical, and we did that for five years."
61
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."
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"I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success."
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"But I definitely see us playing a major role in St. Louis in the years to come. We already provide service to 95 percent of the markets St. Louis travelers visit the most. And we're adding capacity in some of the most important markets."
60
"Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived."
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"If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like."
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"Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value."
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"On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance."
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"To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless."
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"I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms."
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"The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization."
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"I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win."
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"Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products."
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"The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal."
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"We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be."
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"Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too."
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"A peaceful mind is a powerful mind...Set your mind at ease and take charge of yourself."
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"I'd learned enough about circuitry in high school electronics to know how to drive a TV and get it to draw - shapes of characters and things."
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"We all must suffer from one of two pains, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret."
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"Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant."
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