Businessman Quotes

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Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

George P. Shultz

I'm optimistic that, over time, AI models can be taught to distinguish fact from fiction.

I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview. So, in the end, it's ultimately based on your gut. How do I feel about this person? What are they like when they're challenged? I ask everybody that: 'Why are you here?' The answers themselves are not what you're looking for. It's the meta-data.

I just make what I like - warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there is a secret, I guess it's that I never make the pictures too childish, but always try to get in a little satire of adult foibles.

There is seldom just one cockroach in the kitchen. You know, you turn on the light and, all of sudden, they all start scurrying around.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn't set out to build a business empire... For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that's going to make a real difference to other people's lives

Richard Branson

We face serious risk. We face existential risk. The challenge that the world has is how we're going to manage those risks and make sure we still get to enjoy those tremendous benefits. No one wants to destroy the world.

In the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.

The world is changing.... I don't, as a consumer, want advertising that's not relevant. If we're going to take a side let's take the side of the consumer.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Thomas J. Watson

The inventory goes down the elevator every night.

Fairfax M. Cone

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

An alternating-current high-voltage wire gets loose, it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe. Can't develop more than one hundred and ten volts. Working on alternating current is a complete waste of time.

Said to Nikola Tesla

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

Success, in life, is most easily measured by the number of days you are truly happy.

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy — they're given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you're not careful, and if you do, it'll probably be to the detriment of your choices.

You must develop one all-important ability — being able to enlist the help of other people. You have to reach a state where others want to help you. This includes giving credit... which will come back to you a hundredfold. Your reputation stems from what people say when you're not present.

Cecil Howard Green

I had no idea this was going to be an accurate prediction, but amazingly enough instead of 10 [years] doubling, we got nine over the 10 years, but still followed pretty well along the curve.

My theory is that when you're young, you should work eighty hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world.

When we tell the story about what's happening today with browsers ten years from now, I want the thing that replaces Windows to be Windows. I don't want to wake up in a position one day where the guys at Netscape say, "Isn't Windows just that little thing that we use to put up menus and draw lines? Let's just write our own and suck it up into our client."

Engage the people. Don't try to pass a 2,700 page bill — and even they didn't read it! You and I didn't have time to read it. We're too busy trying to live — send our kids to school. That's why I am only going to allow small bills — three pages. You'll have time to read that one over the dinner table. What does Herman Cain, President Cain talking about in this particular bill?

Small Member-States will inevitably be marginalised. The bigger states will not need to listen to their arguments as they did in the past.