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Quotes by Businessman

"The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind."

"Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk."


"Look at all the billionaires. If I know 15 billionaires, I know 13 unhappy people."

"Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by."

"Nothing is finished unless it is started. So just start where you are."

"Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader."

"Great things often start out small, and only open minds can perceive their inception."


"The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized."


"Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle."

"If we can by any method establish a relation of mutual trust between the laborer and the employer, we shall lay the foundation stone of a structure that will endure for all time."

"It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined."

"Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her."

"And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one."

"The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions."

"When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools."

"The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity."

"We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries."


"I did not deal well with the politicians. I tend to tell people that when they are full of crap, that they are full of crap."

"Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference."

"Just don't waste time trying to change what you can't."

"Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus."

"Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean."

"The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes."


"My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them."

"In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?"

"Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion."


"I think the world's a better place because Bill realized that his goal isn't to be the richest guy in the cemetery, right?"

"The 200 years when Britain and the US were the top two economies were an aberration and that will change. The decline of empires has happened much faster than folks think. I believe that gold will be a far better bet in 20 years than the dollar."


"It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so hard if they clearly deserve it."

"The time will come, my dearwhen I will hold you closeand all will beright againin the world."

"If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or you're a big manufacturer."


"I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens."

"People talk and people listen, but very few care enough to help."

"Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one."

"I wanted to create a picture in music of what could be up there in outer space."

"I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity."

"If all work and no play makes you dull,Then you're on the wrong job."

"We are now after 7 months operation making money here."

"I'm actually an evil bastard in real life. Fark allows me to vent weirdness. Thank god for that, too."

"Your handtouching mine.this is howgalaxiescollide."

"There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us."

"I can't think of a better way to revenge someone who tried to break you,Than to live and love life more without them."

"How is the government going to run without people like us? We make 35 percent of the bread in this country, and that much of the margarine, and cooking oil, and all the other things."

"Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco."

"I've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity."
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