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Quotes by Businessman
"I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am."
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"Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land."
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"I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other."
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"So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty."
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"As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends."
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"Somehow, I had the feeling that I was responsible for Harry being dead. I remembered all the times that I wished he were dead, all the times I had dreamed of killing him. I got to thinking that maybe my wishing had finally killed him."
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"But the most important thing is, Enron did not cause the California crisis."
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"When times get tough and your path gets rough, just hold on. You'll get there soon enough."
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"So I think we have an obligation with our size to make sure that we are open to what people have to say to us because the people who criticize us, they're not all mean-spirited."
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"My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go."
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"The innovation is going to come, and that is good for everybody."
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"If there's anything that is the center of my career both creatively and emotionally, it's the Olympics."
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"Well, rates would go up whether you deregulate or not, and of course, the rates that are going up right now on the electricity side are still within the regulated framework."
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"When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then."
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"I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense."
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"Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence."
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"The international game has changed for bidding cities."
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"Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet."
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"Basically I am a private individual who has concerns about his country and who has resources that give me the privilege - and responsibility - to do something to help my country if I can."
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"I can only have dinner with my girlfriends once a month instead of once a week."
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"To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill Gates."
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"Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed."
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"If it went on the ballot in Colorado, I would vote to lower the drinking age."
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"Your heart is your compass in the journey of life, follow it."
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"The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill."
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"The evidence does not support abstinence-only interventions as the best way to keep young people from unintended pregnancy."
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"Effective management always means asking the right question."
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"I wasn't absolutely too sure where the Falklands was, and I didn't want to make a bloody fool of myself."
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"That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower."
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"It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people."
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"We accelerated our capital spending in the fourth quarter, particularly in international and next-generation network deployment, which should not only sustain future revenue growth but also drive significant cost reductions across all communications services."
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"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity."
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"If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?"
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"Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness."
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"Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans - they love their music, and want more."
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"I've managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. It's all about ideas."
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"Passion and standing up for things can help create a sense of unity. But you still have to act a certain way."
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"And this is one way to do technology forecasting; get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn."
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"My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job."
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"He didn't want to tell his son what to do, but told me to write the president a letter. I didn't name a country, but there are many countries we have a fragile relationship with."
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"There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity."
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"Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people."
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"You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour."
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"A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds."
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"Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day."
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