American Businessman Quotes

We do not do ourselves a good turn by becoming panicky at the idea of the mere number of engineers that are being produced in other countries, or by consciously engaging in a technological numbers race.

Mistakes are a part of life; you can't avoid them. All you can hope is that they won't be too expensive and that you don't make the same mistake twice.

When companies fail, or fail to grow, it's almost always because they don't invest in the people, the systems, and the processes they need.

When we take a top-tier view of the amount of code showing up inside of Linux today that is either directly related to our Unix System 5 that we directly own or is related to one of our flavors of Unix that we have derivative works rights over—we don't necessarily own those flavors, but we have control rights over how that information gets disseminated—the amount is substantial. We're not talking about just lines of code; we're talking about entire programs. We're talking about hundred [sic] of thousands of lines of code.

When a beginner wins he feels brilliant and invincible Then he takes wild risk and loses everything.

Alexander Elder

The greater the handicap, the greater the triumph.

John H. Johnson

[Apple] brings to mind the idea of a corporate edifice complex. That's where a successful company builds a monument to its greatness just as it is losing touch with the realities of its market.... The construction of a $5 billion palatial headquarters when the company is — at best — between hit products does reflect a certain corporate arrogance.

Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don't know anything.

What you want is protection. You want to be safe. What the government does is to try to retaliate after the fact.

The first time I watched television I felt exactly as if something important had taken an elevator ride up to my head and gotten off and turned on the light in my mind. I knew that I was going to do something in television. It was in my cards. I remember feeling the warm relief of knowing where my future was.

Mary Wells Lawrence

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the lathe of the past.

We suck at dealing with abuse and trolls on the platform and we've sucked at it for years.

In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if we live our lives in a noisy restaurant and can't have the intimate conversation we most yearn for.

If you want to catch a cold, hang out with sick people. If you want to lose, associate with losers. But if you want to become successful, go out of your way to associate with successful people.

Thomas J. Stanley

All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention.

What I saw generically on the pro-biotech side was the attitude that the technology was good and that it was almost immoral to say that it wasn't good because it was going to solve the problems of the human race and feed the hungry and clothe the naked. And there was a lot of money that had been invested in this, and if you're against it, you're Luddites, you're stupid. There was rhetoric like that even here in this department. You felt like you were almost an alien, disloyal, by trying to present an open-minded view on some of the issues being raised. So I pretty much spouted the rhetoric that everybody else around here spouted; it was written into my speeches.

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.

The more communities in which you are an active participant, the more likely it is that you'll be happy.

If you're not called crazy when you launch something new, it means you're not thinking BIG enough.

Linda Rottenberg

This past election, the Democrats used every personal attack, including charges of racism, against President Trump. He then won a landslide victory on a straightforward platform of economic nationalism. As long as the Democrats fail to understand this, they will continue to lose. But leftist elites do not value history, so why would they learn from history?

When you have mastered the numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading a book. You will be reading meanings.

Healthy families are our greatest national resource.

Edwin Gould, Sr.

I have a bond with tailors. It's not because I'm a tailor myself but because they know I care about how they experience their jobs.

Advanced engineering always, like advanced everything else, brings down upon it the discredit of ridicule of minds who cannot see so far.

Alfred P. Sloan

A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.

Chester Barnard