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Quotes by Businessman
"A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others."
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"All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties."
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"I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal."
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"In the case of Enron, we balance our positions all the time."
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"I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida."
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"It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now."
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"I've been a strong financial and political supporter of, first, President Bush Sr. when he was running for president, and even when he ran for president a time or two and failed."
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"We have developed overlays for the keys of the cash registers with the help of the Braille Institute, so that blind crew members can take orders and help our guests."
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"My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals."
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"To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past."
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"Who cares about that stuff? This is America, not Jerusalem. I'm an American. Let Harry be a Jew."
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"They say live it how you want toOr else someone else will.This is my life, and I willLive it."
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"No one knows the future, but the present offers clues and hints on its direction."
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"People who produce good results feel good about themselves."
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"If something happens, you have to realize that you can't just yell at people all the time."
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"I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine."
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"A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all."
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"I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me."
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"If you're going to be at a job environment, you should love it. You shouldn't do it just for money. You should do it because you love it. And the money comes naturally."
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"It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality."
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"Did somebody dream there is some way that the government doesn't need us?"
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"A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war."
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"Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo."
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"The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system."
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"The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization."
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"You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness."
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"In the business world and the volunteer world, each job has certain requirements that must be met in order for that job to be done properly and for that organization to survive and prosper."
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"There is no sense in owning the copyright unless you are going to use it. I don't think anyone wants to hold all of this stuff in a vault and not let anybody have it. It's only worth something once it's popular."
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"I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine."
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"Our systems are all go. At 9:30 Monday morning trading will resume on both markets, and the message will be given to criminals who foisted this on America that they lost."
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"The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it."
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"What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents."
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"Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes."
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"God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone's heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth."
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"The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich."
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"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work."
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"Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains."
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"The key to why things change is the key to everything."
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"The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again."
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"I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience."
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"Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary."
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"There's a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That's crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they're doing, you say 'wow,' and soon you're cooking up all sorts of ideas."
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"I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating."
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"I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing."
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"To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job."
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