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Quotes by Businessman
"There are no ugly women, only lazy ones."
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"If you don't sell, it's not the product that's wrong, it's you."
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"To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings."
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"My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one."
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"How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law."
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"Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes."
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"So we believed that strategic alliances and partnerships were critical, and we did that for five years."
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"Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it."
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"The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different."
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"Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in."
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"My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too."
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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."
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"To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am."
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"Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service."
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"Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence."
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"We're either going to save Ihe world or no one will be saved."
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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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"Performance is your reality. Forget everything else."
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"A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son."
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"I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood."
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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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"Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality."
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"In advertising not to be different is virtually suicidal."
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"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star."
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"You must constantly change and adapt to a new environment."
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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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"People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters."
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"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it."
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"Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are."
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"Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1."
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"I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half."
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"I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in."
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"Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness."
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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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"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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"Look, moonI turned silver for you."
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"The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery."
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"Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board."
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"You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott."
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"Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches."
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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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"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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"Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana."
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"Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out."
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"I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful."
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"I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms."
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