American Businessman Quotations | Page 5

If you are only doing what you are getting paid for, and doing it no better than the average employee, then your pay is most likely right where it should be.

You are not, nor ever will be, better than anyone else besides the person you are now.

One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.

Show interest in all people, not just those from whom you want something. Making people feel important and good about themselves is just the right thing to do.

If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?

It's not people who resent successful people; it's resentful people who resent successful people.

If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.

The other Processors sold inferior corn in the consumer package because many consumer buyers were only interested in a good price.

There are companies out there in our country who historically have not been able to beat the Germans and the Japanese, who now beat them routinely.

Where institutions in corporate America have, in fact, committed, you see the results. And where there is no commitment, the results are bad.

When I was in Taiwan, I was taught in school that Taiwan is part of China.

When we compile a petition, we often have members go to their representative's or Senator's offices and deliver it in person. This way they can experience a real connection with the staff.

We would rather have our employees running our business.

We're just sort of like the Eveready bunny. And we just keep going and we expect that to continue because of the strength of that housing market.

Throughout history the public has always piled into the latest bull market right at the top so few have caught on to the bull market in commodities.

Ultimately, we wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour.

The fact of the matter is, most of our orders are not supersized. Less than five per cent are supersized - that's never mentioned. The whole issue has been supersized itself.

What we do is not going to be successful unless our members care about it.

When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't.

We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.

When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters.

Lower labor costs and tax benefits have, for example, caused publishers like EA, UbiSoft, and others to move more production to Canada.

Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.

So I think relatively early on I probably was on a path to be more of an entrepreneur, and I think everybody in my family kind of sensed that.

So if I die, somebody else from the corporation will take over the business.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

Since we formed the firm in 1976, we've bought some 38 different companies, and we spent about $65 billion, buying these different companies.

Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world.

She no longer has a staple in her navel.

Mobilize people to vote and to re-elect Clinton as the only way to defeat.

Moveon is not a one-way broadcast media. The Internet, when used best, is a two-way media. We have a forum in which people can post comments and those comments can be rated. We get a sense of what people feel most passionately about.

Mother also loved Asian art, but she preferred the ceramics and sculpture of earlier Chinese and Korean dynasties, as well as Buddhist art.

McGraw had been a great friend of my father's in the days when McGraw was managing the New York Giants and my daddy was president of the Chicago Cubs.

Maturity? There are things that come with experience - managing your craft. What I've picked up since my earlier music is not profundity.

My interest is home computer software. I'm not in it because it is booming; I think the key is that the programs must tell you how to use them.

Nobody feels any worse than I do about losing.

One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he actually was the general manager of this power cooperative. It was quite magical to me.

One problem was that my direct testimony was in writing, so a lot of people didn't get to see it. I hope they see it, because I think it built a very strong case.

One of our most difficult realizations was that-in the course of two years-a connecting hub in St. Louis had gone from something we thought we needed to something we could no longer afford.

One of Netscape's main attractions to customers from Day One is that we provide alternatives. And that's cherished by many customers - certainly not all.

Occasionally I'll stick something up there that I'll know will ignite controversy, but I'm trying to keep that down to around one per week.

Of course, nothing happens until somebody sells something.

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed.

My dad was in the Army and we traveled all over the place and I never failed to win first prize.

More and more, more and more digital, in particular, I think you'll see in our stores next year, as we start combining these digital products and they interface with each other, you'll see that represented in Wal-Mart.

My father wanted me to go into the oil business. He was in the oil and gas business as a consulting petroleum engineer up in Tulsa.

Maybe its because my father was so successful in a totally different field, but I found working in a small environment just a great joy.

Nothing in the reporting of a nation's history could so mislead the younger generation as to represent great events in such a way that they appear to have happened as a matter of course.

Right now most of the communication going on about technology seems unnecessarily obscure and overly technical. Apple still seems to do the best job.

Retirement is not in this company's vocabulary. If you are well and able to work, you can stay at the company and that's what I plan to do.

Right now computing can be hard. Machine language is somewhat inaccessible. And Basic is not quite so bad, but it still blows some people away.

Personally, it was hard to see Emmitt in red.

Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility.

On my recent trip around the world, I bought shares of companies in places like China and Chile, countries I feel have great potential.

I was at Northeastern University playing with the idea and getting feedback from my roommates, and then started drafting a really basic design idea.

I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across.

I did not think this doll could ever be this huge.

I did tell security to make sure you stay and watch him pretty closely.

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

IBM decided they were going to enter the copying business in 1968.

But when great ideas and the vital affairs of a nation are at stake, then the individual needs the support of the spiritual leaders of the nation.

But it shows some of the hunger there is for user expression and interest in the most popular of the blogs, in sharing and reading.

But staying awake is not real exciting for people to watch.

But the St. Louis experience, perhaps better than anything else, illustrates just how much our industry has changed during the past three years.

But change must always be balanced with some degree of consistency.

Because we only feed in the United States less than 1 per cent of the meals, most of them are eaten elsewhere. Most meals are eaten at home. So to make McDonald's the target is not going to solve the problem.

I have sort of been swept along on the crest of this wave right from the beginning. It gets bigger and bigger, and I try to stay a stroke ahead of it.

I did not feel I had to carry a gun. However, I knew how to shoot a gun very proficiently. As a boy, I used to play cowboys and Indians all the time.

I did my best to look ashamed of myself.

Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of your money.

If anything, the negative press and the criticism take away the opportunity to feel as good as you can feel about your employment.

If a man use opium once he cannot stop it, and it becomes a life-long habit to use opium; hence the English want to introduce it into Japan.

GNOME is aiming for simplicity and consistency; we're the first open source desktop project to have a documented set of human interface guidelines.

If someone is blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?

Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one.

He'll come back to visit, but not to stay, not to live.

There is no compelling reason today for these businesses to remain together. Almost every strategic decision regarding AOL has been wrong.

There is no For Sale sign on our door.

We can collaborate with a Netscape employee or partner who's halfway around the world. We can distribute information and software to customers and shareholders, and get their feedback.

Today for us, it's not about more stores.

Today, everything is accelerating change, with one incredibly important exception. There has been no loss of institutional float.

He shouldn't be alone at a time like this. This is a special time for me to be around as much as I can. He needs his family and his friends and his fans.

History shows you don't know what the future brings.

There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.

When they get a 50-inch waist and a gorilla butt, it's ugly looking - and I think bodybuilding has become ugly looking.

Well, you got to realize that I have no scientific background so, you know, all the scientific mumbo jumbo doesn't mean a lot to me.

Humanity is quite a unique species, since it is the only one with the means to wipe itself out.

He can write songs. He can write hits on top of hits. He's a good producer, and above all that, he's got fans all over the world.

I was also encouraged by the opinion of several experienced publishers, who agreed that the time is ripe for the execution of such a project.

Kids used to tease me unmercifully about that name.

It appears from this information that the river is not the Multnomah, a southern branch of the Columbia, which I first supposed it to be.

I was always very close to my mother and my grandmother, my dad's mother. They gave me great values, and they had great confidence in me.

I think we're proving ourselves as we go along. The past several months our strategy has been evolutionary - making maximum advantage of our client browser, as well as our enterprise software for people who want to build Web sites.

I think a lot of people picked wrong in the Derby and it created a reaction that, instead of saying they were wrong, they knocked the horse.

I think after this year I shall give up the Telegraph business to you and Col. Speed and I will turn my attention to the improvement of the property.

It isn't as important to buy as cheap as possible as it is to buy at the right time.

I was about four years old when I came to Battle Creek, and there was no organized church at that time - simply a small company.

I think they, Peter McCullough was, turns out was not a good CEO.

I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group.

I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve.