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Quotes by Businessman
"A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent."
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"I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better."
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"I have faith in the market when we get the rules right."
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"Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success."
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"For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song."
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"Nicolette, Kendalle, and Alexandra are my children. Their mother, Cynthia Beck, and I, love them very much."
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"I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men."
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"As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will be able to compete with you, to cause you harm or to take advantage of you, for together you can undertake and perform more than any house in the world."
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"It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living."
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"I'm not saying that more performance wouldn't be better - all these technologies are going to get better - that's the difference between first generation and second generation."
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"No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't understand just what I was doing by going into retailing. After I started, though, it got into my blood. I knew this was what I wanted."
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"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude."
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"A protracted legislative fight will not move us closer to where the music industry wants to be - delivering music to fans through a variety of different, innovative Web sites."
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"Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs."
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"I am not a member of the CIA or any other intelligence agency."
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"If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It's a step process."
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"We are at war with enemies that still have the intent to do further damage to Americans at home and abroad."
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"In the end, I'll put my good acts up against those of anybody in this country. Anybody."
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"The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership."
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"Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency."
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"The last thing I would have ever expected to happen to me in my life would be that, in fact, I would be accused of doing something wrong and maybe even something criminal."
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"Wherever modern translations of marked excellence were already in existence efforts were made to secure them for the Library, but in a number of instances copyright could not be obtained."
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"Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me."
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"We should seek a system that provides outlets for those skills and talents so that everyone can find a way to work and serve in a manner that best suits the strengths of each individual."
Work,
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"Be influenced by nothing but your clients' interests. Tell them the truth."
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"The cholera most forcibly teaches us our mutual connection. Nothing shows more powerfully the duty of every man to look after the needs of others."
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"Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something."
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"Today, there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities, just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other commodities."
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"It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes."
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"The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi."
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"Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way."
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"If you have more money than you need, you have to give it away. It's a duty. I get to choose whom to sponsor, and I like to give to the areas that I know something about."
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"There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible."
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"What we are doing is satisfying the American public. That's our job. I always say we have to give most of the people what they want most of the time. That's what they expect from us."
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"Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth."
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"I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left."
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"In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women."
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"I have to take responsibility for anything that happened within its businesses."
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"Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense."
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"The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied."
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"You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it."
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"I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism."
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"Don't organize for any other purpose than mutual benefit to the employer and the employee."
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"The country's top chefs, designers, media personalities and businesses are part of this dynamic city. We know that Chicagoans are used to the highest standards."
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"I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge'."
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