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If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?
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Bill Gates
war
But charity is a very complicated thing. It's important to find an area where you can really help and you can feel the results. Charity is not like feeding pigeons in the square. It is a process that requires professional management.
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Roman Abramovich
men
In motivating people, youve got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.
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Rupert Murdoch
hope
Majority rule will only work if you're considering individual rights. You can't have five wolves and one sheep vote on what they want to have for supper
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Larry Flynt
work
Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.
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Warren Buffett
good
We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.
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Paul Allen
time
The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on.
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Mukesh Ambani
growth
I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
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Stanley Baldwin
trust
The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.
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Steve Ballmer
people
A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
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P. T. Barnum
love
FIFA stands for discipline, respect, fair-play, not just on the field of play, but in our society as well.
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Sepp Blatter
society
I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.
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Robert Bosch
money
One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.
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Herman Cain
inspirational
Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.
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John Carmack
success
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
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Andrew Carnegie
men
They say Formula One is a market which it can't be, obviously. Our market is independent, it's a sport.
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Bernie Ecclestone
end
We'll continue to expand our footprint... Oracle's Fusion cloud applications for HCM, CRM and ERP all have a new simplified user interface and an integrated social network that makes our enterprise applications as easy-to-use and familiar as Facebook, while enabling better collaboration and teamwork among your employees and your customers.
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Larry Ellison
work
Well, I don't know about the dizzy height, but I always thought they were going to be pretty big.
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Brian Epstein
thought
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
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Ludwig Erhard
art
The good thing about flying solo is it's never boring.
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Steve Fossett
good
I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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Melinda Gates
live
Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.
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William Randolph Hearst
you
It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.
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Hugh Hefner
people
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
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Donald Trump
motivation
I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
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Sam Walton
time
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
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Aristotle Onassis
success
Im not a paranoid deranged millionaire.
—
Howard Hughes
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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Lady Bird Johnson
men
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
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Robert Kiyosaki
success
If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.
—
Ingvar Kamprad
leadership
I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture.
—
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
end
The best things in life are free - and $19.95.
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Billy Mays
life
Im not afraid of failing. I dont like to fail. I hate to fail. But Im not afraid of it.
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Vince Mcmahon
hate
We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?
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Robert Mcnamara
death
The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise - a celebration of the human spirit. Personally to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness.
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Lakshmi Mittal
men
The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.
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Gordon Moore
change
We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their hearts desire their technological capacity.
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Akio Morita
art
I am addicted to sport. Without sport, I feel bad.
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Mikhail Prokhorov
bad
Ive only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. Its the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.
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Colonel Sanders
you
I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.
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Oskar Schindler
power
I will repeat again that females are the symbols of nonviolence. Another thing I would say is that a female is more compromising. A female can talk with anyone easily.
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Yingluck Shinawatra
sin
I believe in rituals.
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Charles Simonyi
believe
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
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George Soros
understanding
An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.
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Levi Strauss
you
You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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Ted Turner
win
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