Famous quotes by Businessman

"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions"

Harold S. Geneen, Businessman

"I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality"

Harold S. Geneen, Businessman

"Part of the problem is that economists can't do math. That's why banks fail every twenty years"

Øystein Stray Spetalen, Businessman

"An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it"

William Bernbach, Businessman

"There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us"

Marvin Davis, Businessman

"My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

"Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

"Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half"

John Wanamaker, Businessman

"Sports are the great unifier. It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from, everyone can come together and enjoy a game"

Ben Mintz, Businessman

"Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon"

Victor Kiam, Businessman

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

Christie Hefner, Businessman

"Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we'll get somewhere"

Peter Lynch, Businessman

"We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think'"

Levi Strauss, Businessman

"Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"A very large percentage of economic activity is shifting online, and it makes sense that there are more services that are going to charge. It also means there are going to be more people willing to pay"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"Aaron Sorkin was completely unable to understand the actual psychology of Mark or of Facebook. He can't conceive of a world where social status or getting laid or, for that matter, doing drugs, is not the most important thing"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason"

Edward Coke, Businessman

"Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls"

Edward Coke, Businessman

"Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions"

Edward Coke, Businessman

"When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do"

Charles M. Schwab, Businessman

"Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future"

Carly Fiorina, Businessman

"Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system"

Carly Fiorina, Businessman

"The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it"

Mack R. Douglas, Businessman

"To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless"

Ted Turner, Businessman

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

Larry Ellison, Businessman

"Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places"

E. Joseph Cossman, Businessman

"Square meals often make round people"

E. Joseph Cossman, Businessman

"Great men are usually the products of their times, and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history"

John Moody, Businessman

"I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth"

David Geffen, Businessman

"There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

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