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Quotes by Businessman
"There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on."
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"No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming."
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"I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband."
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"I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity."
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"A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important."
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"I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress."
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"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows."
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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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"When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier."
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"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."
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"Look, moonI turned silver for you."
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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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"Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap."
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"Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant."
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"Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches."
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"To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am."
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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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"A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things."
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"Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service."
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"Steve Jobs didn't really set the direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs but he did the more important part of turning them into a product that would change the world. I don't deny that."
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"I've always wanted to improve on the idea of living well, In moderation, wine is good for you - mentally, physically, and spiritually."
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"Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees."
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"I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful."
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"We're either going to save Ihe world or no one will be saved."
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"Performance is your reality. Forget everything else."
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"Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers."
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"When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky."
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"I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software."
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"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."
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"We like the size of the company today given the environment and have no plans to split it up and make it smaller."
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"Wherever you are, be there! Be there to absorb it. Take a picture if you can. Take pictures in your mind; let your soul and heart take pictures. Get it, capture it, absorb it. And don't be casual in getting it. Casualness leads to casualties."
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"Big achievements come one small advantage at a time, one step at a time, one day at time."
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"Where we can compete on merit, we do very well."
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"Apple does great products, but at the end of the day we think consumers want choice, consumers want openness."
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"Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1."
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"I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise."
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"I can't think of a time that the U.S. government asked us or instructed us not to report or air something."
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"We're going to try to create some programs that are going to generate viewer interest and appointment viewing. We still will have news on Headline News."
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"The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies."
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"Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities."
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"For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk."
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"Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance."
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"I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master."
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"In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits."
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"Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people."
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"Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships."
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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."
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