Famous quotes by Businessman

"As men get older, the toys get more expensive"

"If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out"

"You don't have to be the biggest to beat the biggest"

"Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers"

"Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes"

"Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality"

"In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'"

"Do what you do best, and you will succeed"

"Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets"

"We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets"

"It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone"

"I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do"

"I get asked a lot why Apple's customers are so loyal. It's not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That's ridiculous"

"No, I never thought about my father's money as my money"

"I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my own money"

"Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water"

"Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living"

"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live"

"Either you run the day or the day runs you"

"A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit"

"A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee"

"Remember that it is not where you come from, or not even where you are; it is where you are going that matters most"

"If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible"

"It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family"

"Everything in life is luck"

"Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build"

"Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding"

"If something happens, you have to realize that you can't just yell at people all the time"

"I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel"

"Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense"