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Quotes by Businessman
"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action."
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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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"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done."
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"Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust."
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"When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact."
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"The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights."
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"When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period."
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"Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles."
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"My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it."
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"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power."
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"I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts."
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"Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition."
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"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."
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"If you are a friend of the Constitution as I am, I hope you will consider engaging me in the topics of my posts whether you agree or disagree with my position on a particular subject."
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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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"The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people."
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"I want my testimony to stand on that point. But I would point out that Zona Research Inc. showed we have increased market share among business users, educational users, and government users over the past several months - and that's more recent than the IDC report."
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"I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise."
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"There is no such thing as a permanent advertising success."
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"Well, I am a Republican, and I would run as a Republican. And I have a lot of confidence in the Republican Party. I don't have a lot of confidence in the president."
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"I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think."
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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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"One right decision doth not a great president make."
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"It's not just buying the company. Sure, we picked the right companies, and we picked the right management and, most importantly, we've given them the right incentive to perform."
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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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"Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top."
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"I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten."
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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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"If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble."
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"The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on."
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"I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out."
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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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"What people forget is that every movie that gets made keeps making money for somebody FOREVER."
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"The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that."
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"If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers."
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"I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built."
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"Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them."
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"I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake."
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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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"The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising."
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"That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed."
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"What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form."
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"The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do."
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"Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts."
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