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Quotes by Businessman
"If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth."
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"You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing."
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"I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser."
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"A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing."
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"We want to set a tone going into our fiscal year that starts Feb. 1, that Wal-Mart Stores is going to be aggressive in taking care of customers, taking care of our associates, communications and merchandising."
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"In some ways, people forget about average working people, and how they live their lives."
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"Right or wrong, the customer is always right."
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"Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap."
Time,
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"It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with before it can become authoritative."
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"Now I have known Sen. Bill Frist, the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, since he was born."
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"I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time."
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"Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living."
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"One who fears failure limits his activities."
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"Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist, and you will sweep war from the earth."
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"I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself."
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"Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time."
Time,
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"In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up."
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"Spending time at the Federal Reserve was a good learning opportunity for me. It helped me to understand economic philosophies and polices that I had not previously known about."
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"We want to make sure the thing you're looking for is on Google 100 percent of the time."
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"If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own."
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"What should exist? To me, that's the most exciting question imaginable. What do we need that we don't have? How can we realize our potential?"
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"It's not, 'We have a city to bid, now let's go check in with the federal government'."
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"We vote - if the public votes 50 percent, we vote 70 percent. So we have a bigger impact with our numbers, and the organization and the manpower we can bring to a race."
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"In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive."
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"The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement."
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"Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory."
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"I am sure there will come a time when we are going to use AMD. The products have been getting better. The acceptance is getting better. But we have not been suffering as a company for either growth or profitability because we haven't had AMD."
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"Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets."
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"I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars."
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"We're just dealing with the kind of warp and woof of television ratings."
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"Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water."
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"Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?"
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"This is a basic requirement the meaning of globalization is that we should admit that the economy of each country is dependent on the economy of all the others."
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"Our entire team is focused on managing this company for value - fixing or eliminating those operations that lessen value and expanding or adding those that enhance value."
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"If you ever want to eat a tuna sandwich again, don't go to a tuna factory. I visited one where they had two lines: one was the human food line and one was the cat food line - and they didn't look any different."
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"We have already done so much that people call dynamics. Look at the bumblebee being unaware of scientific truths, goes ahead and flies anyway. If it is possible, we will do it here."
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"I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about."
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"There are some very real areas where working together is critical, whether it's talking about public policy issues, enforcement, or how to work together to facilitate new business opportunities. The RIAA has gotten much more involved in that."
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"I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works."
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"Breezy daysdeserve the unionof two old friends."
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"It was immediately clear to me that security was a cross-cutting issue, so rather than dividing the space up in parallel with each of the other areas, I wanted security cut across the areas in addition to having its own content."
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"Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations."
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"Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet."
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"There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."
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"Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea."
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"The question 'Who ought to be boss' is like asking 'Who ought to be tenor in the quartet?' Obviously the man who can sing tenor."
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"You may not like the humor, but that is why every radio has an on-off button."
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"In life I've learned one thing; if you want to be good you have to connect with the best people. So I got very close to the high-stakes players here. I get to watch them and play with them a little bit."
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