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Quotes by Businessman
"When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do."
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"I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close."
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"Canada has great natural resources, and its people have the spirit and ability to develop them."
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"Furthermore, there is no good ethical or economic reason for asking workmen and current producers to forego all economic gain in order to increase the purchasing power of all the wealth accumulated in past years."
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"But any big change is more likely to result if there is a disruptive event such as new technologies or platforms that have a surprising effect on market share."
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"A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could."
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"The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship."
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"The most important thing for the IETF to do is to continue to organise and manage itself to develop the highest quality technical work and to do so in an efficient and open way that is inviting to new people."
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"We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity."
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"I expect that our associates will walk with a little more bounce in their step and understand that this company is behind them and has respect for them."
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"Digital Chocolate has 60% of its developers in Finland where the sun never sets in the summer and there is nothing to do outside in the winter, so we are very productive!"
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"Your successful past will block your visions of the future."
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"More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed."
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"A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country."
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"A representative is free delivery; she's a personal beauty consultant. Some people want that high touch."
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"Whoever you are, you will not write this book. I can tell you nothing. Do not call me again. Ever."
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"And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1990s, about e-commerce, or internet traffic, or broadband adoption, or internet advertising, they were all right - they were just wrong in time."
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"Intel's still our main partner. We have not announced anything with AMD and don't have anything planned, but we're constantly being aware to make sure our customers get the best technology."
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"Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry."
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"We have people working for us full-time because they were forced to retire at 65. I know that I never want to stop working, and I am glad that I can offer positions to others who feel the same way."
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"After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park, it being perfectly clear by that time that the ball club wasn't going to do it unaided."
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"Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having."
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"Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to reconnect water, you need to reconnect power, you need roads, you need bridges, and that has to be done urgently."
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"The enforcement is the flip side to the growth. And that's OK."
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"I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they should be deprived of a critical source of energy."
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"I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners."
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"Advertising ought to work by telling you what it is you want to tell, you should understand what you want us to do, what you want us to think, where you want us to shop."
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"People who oppose Obama are said to be racists - so I guess I'm a racist."
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"I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning."
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"Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people."
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"Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged."
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"Daylight reveals color; artificial light drains it."
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"I live more than anything else to produce the Games."
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"Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal."
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"We could see that he was a charismatic guy who jumps over the moon and is very competitive, but nobody could have predicted what he would become to our culture."
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"Our customer base is not necessarily a leader, an early adopter."
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"Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived."
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"If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void."
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"It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate."
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"Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete."
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"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right."
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"It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny."
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"Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication."
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