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Steve Jobs Entrepreneur
Business

"Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?"

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Jay Conrad Levinson Author, Marketing Consultant
Business

"Marketing is not an event, but a process It has a beginning, a middle, but never an end, for it is a process. You improve it, perfect it, change it, even pause it. But you never stop it completely."

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Muhammad Yunus Social Entrepreneur
Business

"Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society - how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair."

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Steve Jobs Entrepreneur
Business

"A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets."

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Andy Warhol Artist, Filmmaker
Business

"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."

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Arianna Huffington Author, Businesswoman
Business

"We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success."

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Jay Abraham Marketing Consultant
Business

"You are surrounded by simple, obvious solutions that can dramatically increase your income, power, influence and success. The problem is, you just don't see them."

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Charles Dickens Novelist
Business

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery."

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Charlie Watts Drummer
Business

"I've seen Keith fall asleep at business meetings about millions of dollars for him-because of heroin, just nod out and then wake up and answer a question."

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Walter Russell Artist, Author, Philosopher
Business

"Equal interchange of goods and service between buyer and seller is the keynote of tomorrow's business world when the vision of the modern business man awakens him to the wisdom of writing that policy into his code of ethics."

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