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Quotes by Businessman

"So if you're a customer today, the same person who came in to demonstrate the technology for you and helped you architect the solution before you bought it is likely going to be leading the team to help you do the implementation."

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

"High expectations are the key to everything."

"They say Formula One is a market which it can't be, obviously. Our market is independent, it's a sport."

"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows."

"People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps."

"The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together."

"When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes."

"Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges."

"The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be."

"As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for."

"Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history."

"I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about."

"If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice."

"Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap."

"The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything."

"Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest."

"Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?"

"I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity."

"Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles."

"But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth."

"I support population control. I think USA should do the same."

"My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth."

"In communications, familiarity breeds apathy."

"Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board."

"Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real."

"Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions."

"You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott."

"When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen."

"If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful."

"Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something."

"But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had to be done over by the Army after it had already been done by the Air Corps, a mess."

"It's the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing."

"Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial."

"Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable."

"No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking."

"Information about the package is as important as the package itself."

"There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise."

"The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders."

"You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!"

"When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity."
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