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Quotes by Businessman
"Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business."
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"I think in some ways we have allowed other people to set the agenda. Other people to define who we are."
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"Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships."
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"In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way."
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"We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new."
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"Convinced that behavior and conduct are every bit as important as skills and expertise, I sought to build the firm into an enduring, values-based institution."
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"All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work."
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"But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong."
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"We are going after a targeted group of businesses that are creating opportunities for themselves using other people's property. The Internet has very little to do with this."
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"Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding."
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"The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work."
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"Console game publishing has become more like theatrical release film-making and it is very hard if you are not one of the major publishers, and even for them it is hard unless they are working with major game brands."
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"No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment."
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"We obviously want to produce things that people want. We are going to continue to do that in an environmentally responsible way, while still being aware of the physical, scientific, and practical issues that we have to deal with."
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"To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart."
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"We're the largest home improvement company today, and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total amount of building materials sold in the U.S. So when people ask, how much runway left does Home Depot have, it's an awful lot."
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"I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man."
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"Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew."
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"If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero."
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"I don't go near the money and the money doesn't go near me."
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"It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families, and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not."
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"With our next generation hardware, polygon rendering will probably be an area we'll get more heavily into."
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"A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value."
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"I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful - but I know that I have tried."
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"People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age."
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"There are going to be some people who never want Wal-Mart. That's OK."
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"Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals."
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"Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment."
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"I think she was ready to go. Not to be kicked out. Go at the top. Undefeated."
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"Well, then we got to know each other and eventually worked out a bit of idea of management."
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"Most people miss the great part mental outlook plays in this game."
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"If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop."
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"Faith without action is delusion. Faith does not wait for miracles but produces them. If you think you can or if you think you can't, you are right."
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"Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense."
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"But the best teams I've encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of distinct competencies necessary for success."
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"It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the model is quickly changing."
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"We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians."
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"When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form."
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"I really think the Patriot Act violates our Constitution. It was, it is, an illegal act. The Congress, the Senate and the president cannot change the Constitution."
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"For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country."
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"Avon invented the concept of direct marketing and direct selling beauty. And that's still very valid to us. We'll have a firm that will be around for another 114 years as strongly as it was the first 114."
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"Business can be a source of progressive change."
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"Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand."
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"We very much regret that our merger with Sprint was not allowed to proceed."
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"I can't say the advertising model is obsolete yet but it doesn't make a lot of sense in the long range."
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"Once you lose everything, what's the worst that's going to happen to you? You develop a self-assurance."
Self,
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"Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community."
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"I have known Harold Ford Jr. since before he was born, in that his father was my driver in the 1966 governor's race, and has remained a friend of mine all these years."
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