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Business is a sport and I want to win. I want to kick your ass. I may not win every game. But I certainly am going to try.
Leaders are not dogmatic. They are principled and know that change is never easy, but when it's necessary, they must lead.
I said from the very beginning, 'Yahoo should position itself as a technology innovation company, not as a media company.'
You don't have to raise millions of dollars to be successful, you just have to work on something you are passionate about.
The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share.
A founder who is in for the short run, or has no passion for the sector he is in, doesn't give me a great deal of comfort.
Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.
There is giant untapped potential in disagreement, especially if the disagreement is between two or more thoughtful people
Creating success is a tug of war between your mind and your heart-your fears and your dreams. If your fears win, you lose.
Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.
If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N.A.S.A. to make one.
You can't just keep doing what works one time, everything around you is changing. To succeed, stay out in front of change.
Although many believe that technology automatically enables more realistic expression, I believe that is just not correct.
I want to be clear: I do not view myself so much as the owner of Fulham but a custodian of the club on behalf of its fans.
I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value.
Overcoming hardships and working around and through their obstacles to achieve an education is what I call a true success.
Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.
I do not sell life insurance. I sell money. I sell dollars for pennies apiece. My dollars cost 3 cents per dollar per year.
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition.
Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire.
People who have money have an obligation. I wouldn't say I'm entitled to tell them what to do with it but to use it wisely.
I wanted to let my employees know what will come if they make the wrong choice. They need to worry if Obama gets reelected.
Microsoft has tried to do a lot of things in search... thrown a lot of money. But nothing they have done has worked at all.
I don't think people do anything out of fear very well. So I think the only choice is to have them intrinsically motivated.
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.
If you, my fellow copywriters or art directors, want to win the award, devote your genius to making the cash register ring.
I really enjoy sailing on Lake Geneva because I can just look at the shore and see my wife having a barbecue with the kids.
Hitler's mind was a deep-running river. You could never tell when something it had absorbed would bob to the surface again.
All I was looking for is to be successful. I had the opportunity with Australia, with what it provided for me economically.
I was in Australia for many years. And the system there is a two-party system and the government changes from time to time.
Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn't have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be share the profits with others.
My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.
Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn
You wouldn't want to see the size of the check that I would write if it would for sure get the Dallas Cowboys a Super Bowl.
Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers.
Although we might settle for less, Heavenly Father won't, for he sees us as the glorious beings we are capable of becoming.
Many run primarily for the exercise, but others run to condition themselves for well-publicized races of various distances.
I'm lucky I had signposts in my life. At important times, I got pointed in the right direction by particular circumstances.
My idea is that artists should make their music available for free, and fans should only pay for it if they really like it.
It's a good thing god doesn't let you look a year or two into the future, or you might be sorely tempted to shoot yourself.
We have lived through some unforgettable times together, some good, some bad, achieving results that will be hard to equal.
Success is about making your life a special version of unique that fits who you are - not what other people want you to be.
Don't start a company unless it's an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession.
The key is having great players. But there are a lot of teams that have All-Stars and haven't been able to put it together.
Prestige and premium will also play an important role in the future. But some people define these values differently today.
The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.
A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained.
Whenever I have faced a setback I have dusted myself down and got on with the rest of my life because I believed in myself.
So many people spend their lives chasing money and end up as the richest men in the cemetery. I don't want to be like that.