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A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.
Our strategy was to give Judge Hoffman a heart attack. We gave the court system a heart attack, which is even better.
There's an old saying that the government is your partner from birth, but they don't get to come to all the meetings.
People can come to me, and no matter how expert they are, I can virtually always see a way of doing something better.
Pizza's actually healthy for you if you don't eat too much of it. If you eat one or two slices, it's very nutritious.
Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of those around them.
For me, the Lord has opened the windows of heaven and showered blessings upon my family beyond my ability to express.
Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.
Here's the thing - if you stop learning, you might as well pack it in. You can't learn anything with your mouth open.
In business, one of the challenges is making sure that your product is the easiest to experience and complete a sale.
PhotoDisc is an entirely digital provider in both CD-ROM and the Internet. Getty was primarily an analog distributor.
In an era of transparency, you can have innovation without branding, but you cannot have branding without innovation.
I believe that Virtual Reality will hit it big time. I know that some of my colleagues disagree, but I believe in it.
The technology is already incredible and will improve massively in the next few years. Think about what you could do.
Indian software engineers are the best in the world; even in Silicon Valley, the best software engineers are Indians.
Whether you are a business leader or political leader, you need people around you who are prepared to tell the truth.
You can find good reasons to scuttle your equities in every morning paper and on every broadcast of the nightly news.
I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy.
The Lord has a way of working in our lives, and sometimes he brings us down low to bring new values back to our life.
Words transform. Speak only with a good purpose. Say only things that serve you and others. Choose your words wisely.
I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.
If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.
If you stand for something, that means there are going to be people who support you and people who don't support you.
To get such beauty from something that has been produced from the artist's own imagination appealed to me enormously.
Exposure to defeat is a very important thing. Anyone who doesn't look to get beaten is doing a disservice to himself.
The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government.
An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.
We had a saying at Blockbuster: 'If you don't come in on Saturday, don't bother coming in on Sunday.' We worked hard.
There was a time where I chose my jobs based on what jobs were available to me, so I would choose 100 percent of them.
Steve Jobs once asked me for some advice about retail, but I said, 'I am not sure at all we are in the same business.'
Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward.
When you talk about somebody being your world champion, you couldn't ask for a better human being than Daniel Cormier.
The thing about Twitter is it goes directly to your phone like I sent you a text. It's so powerful, it's unbelievable.
It's the lack of ambition that cripples most people, and makes them so pedestrian in the advertising/creative business
I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.
A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.
The professional's grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent.
The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability. And that has a lot to do with trust.
Starbucks is committed to evolving and enhancing our customer experience with innovative and wholesome food offerings.
The problem with the bronco is to get on and stay on. This is the problem with the Golden Rule-to understand and apply
There are two New Yorks - Manhattan and everything else. I'm a Manhattanite. I feel sorry for those people who aren't.
In my early teens, I was a janitor. In high school, I got up early to deliver to accounts that required early service.
Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium over minimum wage.
I take full responsibility for what happened at Enron. But saying that, I know in my mind that I did nothing criminal.
I've been very lucky because Perth has been very good to me. I've enjoyed my journey and met so many wonderful people.
In the enterprise, the trend is towards smaller, more powerful standardized systems where Dell is uniquely positioned.
To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin.