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Quotes by Businessman
"What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form."
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"The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do."
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"Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts."
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"Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence."
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"Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon."
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"Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe."
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"In the '20s they were telling us wed all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon."
Moon,
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"The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world, and it is from the youth and not from the old that the fire of life will warm and enlighten the world. It is your privilege to breathe the breath of life into the dry bones of many around you."
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"Creativity is just connecting things."
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"Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window."
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"The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen."
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"Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children."
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"I think the world is filled with so much hype and PR bull. Frankly, it all comes out in the end. Good or bad, I'd rather just let our accomplishments really speak for themselves."
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"I think the support of the other team at AOL and everybody's really shared passion and belief about this and - saying that some day everybody was going to be on line."
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"Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did."
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"God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits."
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"At first, we couldn't be establishment, because we didn't have any money. We were guerrilla marketers, and we still are, a little bit. But, as we became No. 1 in our industry, we've had to modify our culture and become a bit more planned."
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"Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers."
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"If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes."
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"Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy."
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"Wherever you are, be there! Be there to absorb it. Take a picture if you can. Take pictures in your mind; let your soul and heart take pictures. Get it, capture it, absorb it. And don't be casual in getting it. Casualness leads to casualties."
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"Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change."
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"The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth."
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"Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality."
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"In advertising not to be different is virtually suicidal."
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"That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates."
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"A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well."
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"You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change."
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"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star."
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"There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on."
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"Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway."
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"The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible."
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"No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming."
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"I believe in nurturing creativity and offering a haven for creators, enabling them to develop their ideas to the fullest. With more and more talented creators being drawn to Cirque in an environment that fulfills them, these are ideal to continue developing great new shows."
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"If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them."
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"The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships."
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"A company is only as good as the people it keeps."
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"Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty."
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"First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it."
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"I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity."
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"Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family."
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"I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat."
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"So if you're a customer today, the same person who came in to demonstrate the technology for you and helped you architect the solution before you bought it is likely going to be leading the team to help you do the implementation."
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"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
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"High expectations are the key to everything."
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"There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important."
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"They say Formula One is a market which it can't be, obviously. Our market is independent, it's a sport."
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"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows."
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