Famous quotes by Businessman

"What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it"

Marc Faber, Businessman

"We're here to win the race. If we get beat, we get beat"

Jerry Moss, Businessman

"Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation, but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling"

Naveen Jain, Businessman

"Stay focused on the mission"

Naveen Jain, Businessman

"There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster"

Jerry Della Femina, Businessman

"Thank you for making me nouveau riche"

Jerry Della Femina, Businessman

"A lot of its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel"

Jerry Della Femina, Businessman

"Certainly Yahoo! wouldn't exist without the sort of environment that Stanford gave us to allow us to create it"

Jerry Yang, Businessman

"Mobile entertainment is a huge opportunity. We are committed to mobile just as much as we are to PCs"

Rob Glaser, Businessman

"One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them"

Steve Case, Businessman

"Most of the people who had PCs did not have modems and could not use those PCs as communicating devices. They really were using them for spreadsheets or word processing or storing recipes or playing games or what have you"

Steve Case, Businessman

"I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's"

Steve Case, Businessman

"I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain, changing world"

Steve Case, Businessman

"And so the idea was, well, maybe you can take an Atari video game machine, where people plug in a game cartridge, and plug in a modem, and tie that into a telephone, and essentially turn that game in the machine into an interactive terminal"

Steve Case, Businessman

"I hate weekends because there is no stock market"

Rene Rivkin, Businessman

"Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses"

William Maxwell Aitken, Businessman

"Well, if you look back, in almost two and a half years, the biggest change probably was in late 2000 when we decided to totally change the CA business model"

Sanjay Kumar, Businessman

"We will announce a new offering, where you can get a CA expert on your PC live, via video, on a range of topics about a product"

Sanjay Kumar, Businessman

"That's a very critical phase in customer service because you can start to really understand what part of customer service has value to customers and what part is bothering customers"

Sanjay Kumar, Businessman

"If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen"

Richard M. DeVos, Businessman

"Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough"

Richard M. DeVos, Businessman

"Today we're focused on small acquisitions to add technology where necessary. I think it's fair to say we're not out looking for a large one, but I think it's also very fair to say that as a public company you can never say never"

Sanjay Kumar, Businessman

"Failure is, unfortunately, as common as success"

Sanjay Kumar, Businessman

"But the real focus should be on people who are buying today, because the base is so big, it will take a long time for any change materialize on an overall basis"

Sanjay Kumar, Businessman

"As I said before, a big part of my strategy says - and the management team I think is in agreement with this - we don't have to be out there with a lot of noise all the time. What we need to do is paint a vision for customers, promise them deliverables, and go hit at it"

Sanjay Kumar, Businessman

"The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence"

Mohamed El-Erian, Businessman

"Investors should be cautiously positioned as the global economy and markets face major uncertainties. The downgrade will be a further headwind to growth and job creation in the U.S"

Mohamed El-Erian, Businessman

"Maybe I'm less sensitive to these issues because I see that what people need first is economic security, and only when they have that can they afford to focus on human rights"

Peter Munk, Businessman

"For a Canadian, natural resources were a good fit"

Peter Munk, Businessman

"I was a very early believer in the idea of convergence"

Jean-Marie Messier, Businessman

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