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"I was actually a fruitarian at that point in time. I ate only fruit. Now I'm a garbage can like everyone else. And we were about three months late in filing a fictitious business name so I threatened to call the company Apple Computer unless someone suggested a more interesting name by five o'clock that day. Hoping to stimulate creativity. And it stuck. And that's why we're called Apple."
"Pixar is seen by a lot of folks as an overnight success, but if you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."
"Business is business, no child's play."
"You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You make commerce your business; we make religion our business."
"You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done."
"A sound man is good at salvage, at seeing nothing is lost"
"What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives."
"The most unreliable thing in this world is human relationships."
"Rather than having small smart tricks to get by, focus on holding on and persevering."
"Don't even trust that you are able to unify what everyone is thinking; it is impossible"
"Don't worry; skills are cheap, passion is priceless. If you're passionate about your content and you know it and do it better than anyone else, even with few formal business skills you have the potential to create a million-dollar business."
"Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall."
"Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless."
"The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom."
"Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock."
"A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers."
"Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it."
"What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business."
"Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith."
"Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before."
