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Quotes by Businessman
"I've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity."
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"Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle."
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"You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you."
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"We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress."
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"Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage?"
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"There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was. What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years."
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"Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become."
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"It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price."
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"Always I pay. Always I pay. How do you know Gelli? What do you want? How much do you want?"
Want,
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"The future of the airlines lay in hauling people, not in hauling mail for the government."
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"I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all."
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"We at Apple had forgotten who we were. One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are."
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"Don't organize in the spirit of antagonism; that should be beneath your consideration."
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"The owners don't win by having a lockout. Shutting down your business is not good for anybody and it's certainly not good for the players, it's certainly not good for the fans. And that's most important to us."
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"The American people know that every day 3,000 kids begin to smoke, 1,000 of them die an early death. They're not going to allow us to go forward this year and not have comprehensive bipartisan legislation. It's in everybody's best interest."
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"A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.'"
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"We love our business. We have never been more enthusiastic about cable and its future."
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"What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it."
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"Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost."
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"Personally, I think it is better for me to love myself and enjoy being me, than to please someone else by pretending to be someone I'm not."
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"You've baked a really lovely cake, but then you've used dog shit for frosting."
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"If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up."
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"Everything around you that you call life was made up by people, and you can change it."
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"An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from."
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"Perhaps people who don't value other people's time are actually reflecting a misunderstanding they have themselves, that of not giving appropriate value to their own time."
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"I tell her that the best thing to do when you fall is to get up,And she is up, so she's moving in the right direction."
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"Number one, I absolutely love making chocolate chip cookies. I mean, it's fun. It's exciting. Beyond the fact that I love making them, I love eating them."
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"You are valuable, but you are worth as much as you think and make yourself out to be."
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"One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?"
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"It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family."
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"For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class."
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"If the Wright Brothers were alive today, Orville would have to lay off Wilbur."
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"If you print money like in Zimbabwe... the purchasing power of money goes down, and the standards of living go down, and eventually, you have a civil war."
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"Pain strengthens and failure teaches us the proper way to do things."
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"A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear."
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"Essentially, we can once again have the whole American public know that any time in the weekend they need not be alone and they don't have to sit there watching the television set - they can turn this service on and in will come the flow."
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"Trust is hard to gain, but it is even harder to regain once lost."
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"In life, most decisions are a case of let go to get."
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"I'm strong beyond appearances reveal,But I'm human, and have weak moments still."
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"As days are numbered and life is short, why waste days feeling bad for yourself?"
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"Certainly Yahoo! wouldn't exist without the sort of environment that Stanford gave us to allow us to create it."
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"This really is a merger of equals. I wouldn't have come back to work for anything less than this fantastic opportunity. This lets me combine my two great loves - technology and biscuits."
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"When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that."
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"It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style."
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"Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you."
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"Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires."
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"Vision without execution is just hallucination."
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