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Quotes by Businessman
"In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope."
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"I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to."
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"The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice."
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"I love the market, it is my work, my play and my life."
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"The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard."
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"To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines."
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"We live in a time today where we face fierce global competition."
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"Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest."
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"He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency."
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"Napster is essentially using the music to make money for themselves and that's the part that's both morally and legally wrong. That I think is more relevant than whether or not I'm losing money."
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"We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact."
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"If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?"
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"We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today."
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"If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm."
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"Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them."
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"Let's take a timeout. Let's allow investors the opportunity in a period of market calm to re-examine what's happened and to deploy new strategies into the marketplace."
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"When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?"
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"Bernanke and company are trying to reflate the economy with almost stated objective of inflation at 2 percent and higher in order to provide some type of safety margin for a future recession. That's where they want to go."
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"Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not."
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"I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith."
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"In the 'Nike Economy,' there are no standards, no borders and no rules. Clearly, the global economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States."
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"The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other."
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"It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system."
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"In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry."
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"Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very very important part of what holds our project together."
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"Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege."
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"The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process."
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"Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough."
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"We plan to support Exchange 2003 as soon as it is released. We already have the prerelease versions from MSDN."
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"One of the things that strikes me is so many of the critics are people whose lifestyle doesn't change when the price of fuel changes, or if they keep a Wal-Mart store out of their area."
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"We're not programming to conservatives. We're just not eliminating their point of view."
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"I've often been asked to run for office. I have no desire to do that, I would not want my time with the family or the company restricted because of the demands of an elected position."
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"Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited. One gets excited about going on a roller coaster. One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster."
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"China and the U.S. have a very symbiotic relationship which will not decline any time soon. There are more shared interests as compared to shared differences and for this reason relations will continue to be good."
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"I love Sweden. The entire world should be like Sweden. They all like to drink and get naked, and the women are hot. I can't think of a better nation on the planet."
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"We find that other employees are very enthusiastic about their fellow crew members who have disabilities-or what they previously thought of as disabilities."
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"Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction."
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"When ATM machines came out and people were prosecuted for robbing ATM machines, I don't think anybody thought the banks were against technology because they didn't want their ATM machines lifted."
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"Both parents were very encouraging - especially my father. My father thought the sun rose and set with me. Neither one had a musical background or any musical talent. They liked classical music, but neither could carry a tune."
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"Do not blindly accept anyone's definition of your life and define it yourself."
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"Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you."
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"Bad things bring out the real you, the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort."
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"A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets."
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"The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That is clearly still the goal."
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