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Quotes by Businessman
"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."
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"The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising."
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"Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes."
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"Steve Jobs didn't really set the direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs but he did the more important part of turning them into a product that would change the world. I don't deny that."
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"With out passion you dont have energy, with out energy you have nothing."
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"One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed."
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"All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer."
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"User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process."
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"My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business."
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"If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants."
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"The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them."
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"Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers."
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"It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead."
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"Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is make by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected."
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"Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper."
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"But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prominent in this business, it will help change the view about who can run big companies."
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"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."
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"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito."
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"You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year."
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"Wherever you are, be there! Be there to absorb it. Take a picture if you can. Take pictures in your mind; let your soul and heart take pictures. Get it, capture it, absorb it. And don't be casual in getting it. Casualness leads to casualties."
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"People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness."
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"In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally."
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"Running those poor steers back and forth in the heat is ridiculous. What they ought to do is put the steers in the convention hall and run the delegates."
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"Big achievements come one small advantage at a time, one step at a time, one day at time."
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"I have, in my partner George Roberts, a person who is the most wonderful man in the world to me. He's like a brother to me. Creating with him, being side by side with him, in whatever we try to do, is a real pleasure to me."
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"Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through."
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"I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night."
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"In 1844, there was a balance of perhaps of a couple of thousand dollars on the cr side."
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"Where we can compete on merit, we do very well."
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"There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice."
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"Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going."
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"Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't under-estimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care of social needs."
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"Apple does great products, but at the end of the day we think consumers want choice, consumers want openness."
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"High expectations are the key to everything."
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"We're going to try to create some programs that are going to generate viewer interest and appointment viewing. We still will have news on Headline News."
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"I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon."
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"When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes."
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"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
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"The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison."
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"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."
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"Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society."
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"The more we thought, the more they all sounded boring compared to Apple. You didn't have to have a real specific reason for choosing a name when you were a little tiny company of two people; you choose any name you want."
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"Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business."
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"Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement."
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