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Quotes by Businessman
"Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness."
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"I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all, but it predisposes us to accept a kind of world in which these things happen."
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"Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities."
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"Look, moonI turned silver for you."
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"We all must suffer from one of two pains, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret."
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"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world."
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"The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery."
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"Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board."
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"A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things."
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"Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service."
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"I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps."
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"Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana."
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"That got us started on revenue sharing, and we couldn't have done it without all the teams."
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"In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance."
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"I have a policy that I get to spend as much on myself as I give away."
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"I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win."
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"A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between the this and the that, pulling us toward itself, allowing us to bridge into the unknown from the known."
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"You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change."
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"Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too."
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"The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule."
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"At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right."
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"It is always the start that requires the greatest effort."
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"Every economy is uncertain. Referring to this or any economy as "uncertain" is an unnecessary and pessimistic redundancy."
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"Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great."
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"When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier."
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"Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself."
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"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."
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"Don't turn a blind eye to those that empathize; that care when no one else does, because it could lead to a very satisfying and meaningful relationship, with profound levels of loyalty."
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"Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap."
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"Of course, nothing happens until somebody sells something."
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"Free is really, you know, the gift of Silicon Valley to the world. It's an economic force, it's a technical force. It's a deflationary force, if not handled right. It is abundance, as opposed to scarcity."
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"You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing."
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"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."
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"For this to make sense, of course, it would have to be a fair financial deal for us. But I think this could be the occasion for us to build a true partnership in content. And we're especially interested because interactive services are a key field for us."
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"I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world."
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"The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising."
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"Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes."
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"It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require."
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"Steve Jobs didn't really set the direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs but he did the more important part of turning them into a product that would change the world. I don't deny that."
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"With out passion you dont have energy, with out energy you have nothing."
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"One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed."
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