"Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable."
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"I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done."
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"Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer."
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"To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even if you have nothing else."
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"The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question."
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"Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake."
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"The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements."
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"Business is the most powerful force in society. It has the highest potential for solving social problems. Once consumers saw examples of prosperous companies integrating social concerns into their business practices, they were emboldened to demand the same of other businesses. Businesses could no longer say it was impossible."
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"One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow."
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"I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user."
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"Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money."
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"The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important."
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"As I see it, there are two great forces of human nature: self-interest, and caring for others. Capitalism harnesses self-interest in a helpful and sustainable way, but only on behalf of those who can pay. Government aid and philanthropy channel our caring for those who can't pay. But to provide rapid improvement for the poor we need a system that draws in innovators and businesses in a far better way than we do today."
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"I hope corporations will dedicate a percentage of their top innovators' time to issues that could help people left out of the global economy. This kind of contribution is even more powerful than giving cash or offering employees' time off to volunteer. It is a focused use of what your company does best. It is a great form of creative capitalism, because it takes the brainpower and makes life better for the richest, and dedicates some of it to improving the lives of everyone else."
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"At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right."
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"I'm quite worried about the fiscal imbalances that we've got and what that might mean in terms of financial crisis ahead."
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"The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance."
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"Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart."
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"It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service."
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"The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure"
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