American Businessman Quotations | Page 3

I am sure there will come a time when we are going to use AMD. The products have been getting better. The acceptance is getting better. But we have not been suffering as a company for either growth or profitability because we haven't had AMD.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

QuickBooks - the very fact that we could even dream to make something in the business arena, and that it would then succeed - was a total revolution to me.

I don't have any illusions that what we are doing is sticking the the bottle. I don't think that's what we are doing. We are trying to make sure that the genie has friends, has food to eat, a way to grow.

A great many people mistake opinions for thought.

The weather was fine, the valleys literally covered with buffaloe, and everything seemed to promise a safe and speedy movement to the first grove of timber on my route, supposed to be about ten days' march.

A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.'

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

He said this has the potential to be the first broadband killer application, and it has sort of become the truth because obviously it's so bandwidth intensive. I mean, it has been an issue.

Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.

Well, if you don't want your relatives and friends to die, help me spread the news. Let people know about immortality device. That way, your loved ones won't die.

And the greeter is what sets the tone for this company and I've been on TV a little bit this morning.

Our goal is to leverage what is already out in the field in terms of partners, but then hire in project management capability and a bit of technical capability.

The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.

The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow.

People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.

They have a fine breeze and are now we hope, well on their way.

We didn't readjust our thinking or rebuild quick enough.

Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.

Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited. One gets excited about going on a roller coaster. One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster.

We have already done so much that people call dynamics. Look at the bumblebee being unaware of scientific truths, goes ahead and flies anyway. If it is possible, we will do it here.

I can only say that I have had a wonderful life.

But now all of a sudden some idiots in Taiwan start to say that they are not Chinese. Their grand parents were Chinese. But for some reason, they feel they are not Chinese.

I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.

One of the things that strikes me is so many of the critics are people whose lifestyle doesn't change when the price of fuel changes, or if they keep a Wal-Mart store out of their area.

The President is of opinion that if Japan makes a treaty with the United States, all other foreign countries will make the same kind of a treaty, and Japan will be safe thereafter.

There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness.

Despite the painful changes we have had to make, we continue to believe in the St. Louis market. And we are hoping to add flights, in a careful way, as the economics of our business improve and the demands of the traveling public in St. Louis become clear.

Today more people believe in UFOs than believe that Social Security will take care of their retirement.

We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season.

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Indeed, the whole company, although thin in flesh, and generally of slight forms, and limbs, especially, are as good looking and intelligent a body of men as we usually meet with.

The quality of ownership is not what it was in yesteryear.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

Happy is harder than money. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy hasn't got money.

Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks.

I support population control. I think USA should do the same.

The beauty of this country and what people participate in is the competitive nature that we allow to exist and the fact is that we are better because we have great competitors.

We think we have a responsibility. And I think it's important for all of us in the Western world to realize that we've all been blessed a lot and if you go to these parts they don't have a lot, even before the tsunami.

Just to cover the increase in fuel costs over the past two years, American would have had to raise fares nearly $75 per round-trip ticket. During this time period, our average fare increased by only $15.

Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.

A protracted legislative fight will not move us closer to where the music industry wants to be - delivering music to fans through a variety of different, innovative Web sites.

What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.

Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges.

I didn't say my invention is better, nor did I say other stuff does not work.

We will make our products work out of the box.

Where we have been incorrect in what we have done, then I think we have an obligation to settle.

The secret of all effective advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.

Most of the services staff is for the larger corporations, not so much for small and medium businesses because they cannot afford an extensive services army.

Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.

On my passage thither, I discovered nothing remarkable in the features of the country.

The search for someone to blame is always successful.

Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing which is becoming more and more indispensable.

The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored population of this country, as it promises to be to ill-fated Africa.

A representative is free delivery; she's a personal beauty consultant. Some people want that high touch.

Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power.

I have long felt that an investment by the Department of Energy of a million dollars a year for the next 30 years would pay a higher return than any other investment this country could ever make.

The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

I know my theories and findings are hard for you to accept because they are so original and extraordinary.

People aren't going to talk about it except me and that is communication and the visits I have personally had in our meetings with our store managers saying if you do these things you will be terminated, period.

We always strive to be the best in the wage package.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

I think right now the jury is out on where and how much profit is available in the consumer electronics industry, because if you look at the current consumer electronics players, the biggest ones on the planet struggle to make profit consistently.

Our planes should be full, which among other things means we have a golden opportunity... to build on the momentum reflected in the financial results we are reporting today.

Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.

No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.

I think the Chinese government is doing a great job right now.

I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible brush and try to paint a company.

One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send their children to school.

Intel's still our main partner. We have not announced anything with AMD and don't have anything planned, but we're constantly being aware to make sure our customers get the best technology.

That doesn't mean you have to have the lowest costs in the industry to succeed. But you need to make sure the activities and product attributes that increase your costs above the other guy bring in at least that much more in revenue, and hopefully more.

People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans; they have to be self-reliant.

After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began the descent of the river.

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?

If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee.

So the bandwidth issue is definitely a big concern of ours.

The prisoners eyed the clothes some time, and laughed a good deal among themselves before they put them on.

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.

Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.

In fact, Tibet is one of the most popular European tourist attraction of asia.

It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology.

We are No. 1 worldwide by quite a margin on the client side and expanding, according to IDC and others, every single quarter. Our expectation is that the industry will consolidate and that more of our competitors will exit.

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up.

The current institutionally provided retirement plans will not cover people's needs upon retirement.

As my men could profitably employ themselves on these streams, I moved slowly along, averaging not more than five or six miles per day and sometimes remained two days at the same encampment.

There's no good idea that can't be improved on.

There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.

I had to actually purchase a book to learn the API and write the client. It was pretty frustrating trying to learn the API and develop a product quickly.

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

I think even if I did the research mentioned above, it would be a total waste of money because if those people don't believe in the testimonials, they won't believe in the research at all. They would say that I made it all up. So why waste money?

Many of them are doing it because they are concerned about smart growth.

We want to make as big a market as we can with our current product.

You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that.

Subsequent to the original Quicken, the whole idea that we, as a consumer products company, could actually make business products, that was a whole revolution in our thinking.

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

So I picked a field where I had a little exposure. Where I thought I could have an enormous challenge, and have a chance to really do some good, to be a pioneer in an area, and not just be like everyone else.