"You've got to love what you do to really make things happen."
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"The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor."
"It's the behaviour of your company and its people that form your reputation, and your reputation is your brand"
"About three million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."
"Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it."
"The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces."
"Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; making money is the by-product of our guiding purpose. If you're doing something you love, you're more likely to put your all into it, and that generally equates to making money"
"When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree"
"There is no such thing as a good tax."
"The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done."
"The most important job of an entrepreneur is to design the business before there is a business."
"You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is."
"People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves."
"I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants"
"If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self- interest, you can have practically anything you go after."
"All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal."
"When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees."
"If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new."
"There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors. It not only clears up the air of guilt and defensiveness, but often helps solve the problem created by the error"
"If you can get the inside right, the outside will fall into place."