Businessman Quotes

While Apple's attempt to control the ecosystem and maintain a closed platform may be good for Apple, developers want more options and customers want to fully access the overwhelming majority of Web sites that use Flash. We think many customers are getting tired of being told what to think by Apple. … even people inside the distortion field [at Apple] will begin to resent being told half a story.

You can't breathe for sheer revulsion when you keep finding the bodies of women with bamboo poles thrust up their vaginas. Even old women over 70 are constantly being raped.

Doing the commodity business with China is like drinking coffee. We enjoyed three spoons of sugar per cup for a long time. Suddenly, when that's cut to one and a half spoons, we feel bitter — because it used to be so sweet.

What's a promiscuous person? It's usually someone who is getting more sex than you are.

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.

I boxed in the amateurs before getting into submission fighting and got hooked. Actually, I owned three boxing gyms in Vegas. I trained and managed fighters and had a sports management company. One day I met Tito Ortiz and Chuck Liddell, who I started representing, and I got into this huge contract negotiation with Bob Meyerwitz, the former owner of Tito Ortiz's contract. Through that, Bob and I developed a mutual respect for one another.

The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.

William Tecumseh Sherman

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.

What you've got to do is be honest. Say what you believe. Give it to them straight. Just don't wuss out.

Michael Bloomberg

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?

Platforma didn't fucked you as much as PiS will. Until your asses will itch out of pain. It is a fucking drama.

Zbigniew Stonoga

We are lucky that Steve Jobs has such a bad temper and doesn't care about China. If Apple were to spend the same effort on the Chinese consumer as we do, we would be in trouble.

He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door.

Dejan Stojanovic

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?

You can not have omelettes without breaking eggs; you can not destroy the practises of barbarism, of slavery, of superstition, which for centuries have desolated the interior of Africa, without the use of force; but if you will fairly contrast the gain to humanity with the price which we are bound to pay for it, I think you may well rejoice in the result of such expeditions as those which have recently been conducted with such signal success in Nyassaland, Ashanti, Benin, and Nupé—expeditions which may have, and indeed have, cost valuable lives, but as to which we may rest assured that for one life lost a hundred will be gained, and the cause of civilization and the prosperity of the people will in the long run be eminently advanced.

Joseph Chamberlain

If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance.

James P. Gorman

Humans used to desire love, money, food, shelter, safety, peace and freedom more than anything else. The last 30 years have changed us. Now people want to have a good job, and they want their children to have a good job. This changes everything for world leaders. Everything they do - from waging war to building societies - will need to be carried out within the new context of the need for a good job.

I have the courage of my opinions, but I have not the temerity to give a political blank cheque to Lord Salisbury.

George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen

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

Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future.

There is no jungle in the whole of Africa like the jungle of the City of London.

No man ought to be compelled to live where a rose cannot grow.

I couldn't type on it and I still can't type on it, and a lot of my friends can't type on it. It's hard to type on a piece of glass.

The point is... you'd better figure out what your Customers - the Customers you want - value. Because that's what they'll buy. Anything else is a waste of their money, and they'll figure that out in a hurry.

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