"The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table."
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"Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost."
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"Design isn't just about making things beautiful; it's also about making things work beautifully."
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"An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises."
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"If you do not know where your competitor is, or overconfident and snobbish about your competitor, or are unable to comprehend how yourcompetitor became a real threat, you will surely fall behind him. Don't be the "they" in this idiom: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
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"Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions."
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"Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care."
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"We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in."
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"One of the most effective means for transcending ordinary and moving into the realm of extraordinary is saying yes more frequently and eliminating no almost completely. I call it saying yes to life. Say yes to yourself, to your family, your children, your coworkers, and your business."
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"I do not dislike but I certainly have no especial respect or admiration for and no trust in, the typical big moneyed men of my country. I do not regard them as furnishing sound opinion as respects either foreign or domestic business."
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"But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business."
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"Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends."
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"The message from Wal-Mart today to the rest of the business community is there need not be any conflict between the environment and the economy. We will find the way not only to reconcile (those), but to find new profits and new opportunities as we do the right thing."
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"The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer, songwriter, or find a singer to develop."
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"Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood."
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"You are not your resume, you are your work."
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"A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties."
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"Ignorance is always afraid of change."
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"Your brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room"
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"More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject."
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