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Quotes by Businessman
"In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497."
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"Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars."
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"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."
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"If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent."
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"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star."
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"We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn."
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"People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then."
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"Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't under-estimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care of social needs."
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"I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress."
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"I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise."
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"My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too."
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"Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years."
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"Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back."
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"Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility."
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"Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world."
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"What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think 'outside the box,' people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done."
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"Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it."
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"Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about."
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"Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive."
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"A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs."
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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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"The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled."
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"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."
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"Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees."
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"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito."
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"When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact."
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"If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes."
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"It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme."
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"What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it."
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"Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre."
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"Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction."
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"I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation."
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"How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law."
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"We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'"
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"I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity."
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"Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas."
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"We're going to try to create some programs that are going to generate viewer interest and appointment viewing. We still will have news on Headline News."
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"The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies."
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"You have the power to mold your life how ever you want. To shape it and reshape it."
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"The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective."
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"There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems."
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"It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities."
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"User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process."
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"Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out."
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"Performance is your reality. Forget everything else."
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