Buzz Aldrin Quotes
The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.
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Male actors get into production, share profit, and they don't take money at times but are involved in some capacity which is economical and resourceful. These things suit them; as they have made a place for themselves, they have command over the box office.
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I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.
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I am quite a private person.
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A person is born with a liking for profit.
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There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.
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I've made a profit from everything I have done in life.
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To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit.
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At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'.
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Does the difficulty in ensuring each and every employee of such companies is not tied to insurgent groups and not potentially providing useful targeting information to these groups argue against continuing to employ such firms unless there is no alternative?
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If two parties, instead of being a bank and an individual, were an individual and an individual, they could not inflate the circulating medium by a loan transaction, for the simple reason that the lender could not lend what he didn't have, as banks can do. Only commercial banks and trust companies can lend money that they manufacture by lending it.
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I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I'm no longer a Catholic. I don't talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it's something personal - more than personal, it's private.
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We believe the combination of these two companies will produce very powerful synergies and puts us on a solid platform from which we should be able to realize our full growth potential.
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I think of companies like Nokia having anthropologists who study how people use cell phones, who do that kind of commercial and marketing work, selling out to corporations. I wonder if that has something to do with the image of the more innocent anthropologist, now gone.
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What if there was an eBay of applications, where companies could buy and sell software, running on our platform? ... What if there was an iTunes Music Store of online applications?
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This is a fulfillment of our vision of 'The Business Web,' enabling companies of any size to manage, organize and share all of their business information on demand.
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I'm amazed by the potential of more companies employing integrated philanthropic initiatives at earlier stages in their life cycle. What if this were done on an even more massive scale? Consider what would happen if a top-tier venture-capital firm required the companies in which it invested to place 1% of their equity into a foundation serving the communities in which they do business.
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The elites - or managers in companies - no longer control the conversation. This is how insurrections start.
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I made my money turning around distressed or bankrupt companies. I did 50-some of them in my career... I started on a shoestring and eventually built up quite a fortune.
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It is because the public are a mass inert, obtuse, and passive that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.
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If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
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The value of a loving family cannot be understated.
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Increasingly, there are only two kinds of companies: brave and dead.
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The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.
