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"Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships."

"But I definitely see us playing a major role in St. Louis in the years to come. We already provide service to 95 percent of the markets St. Louis travelers visit the most. And we're adding capacity in some of the most important markets."

"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."

"Control your own destiny or someone else will."

"You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott."

"For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind."

"Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron."

"I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar."

"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."

"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."

"Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins."

"If you don't sell, it's not the product that's wrong, it's you."

"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."

"Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles."

"Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality."

"If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent."

"The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated."

"If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic."

"Well, I am a Republican, and I would run as a Republican. And I have a lot of confidence in the Republican Party. I don't have a lot of confidence in the president."

"One right decision doth not a great president make."

"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."

"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."

"There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft."

"In addition to this, they already have a fuel cell car on the road in Japan. It is subsidized from within the corporation because they are still at a high cost."

"We all must suffer from one of two pains, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret."


"The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved."

"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."

"I support population control. I think USA should do the same."

"The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time."

"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."

"During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think."

"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."


"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."

"Before 1980, it was basically illegal for U.S. banks to invent new products."

"If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade."


"Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world."

"Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking."

"I think that there are changes that have occurred in technology that make is that more people can have the same level of information that I have. My advantage is that I'm very good at interpreting the information."

"You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year."

"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."

"The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way."

"No more waking up at noon, updating FC for an hour, and spending the rest of the day cashing FC checks and watching porn? It was a hard decision, but, like, I'm a man now."

"We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out."
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