Steve Jobs Quotes
When the sales guys run the company, the product guys do not matter so much, and a lot of them just turn off.
Steve Jobs
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You can always think that we're old and not innovative, but there is no company that can limp on for 139 years without being creative and having the genes to change.
Hans Vestberg
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
Saint Augustine
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Oliver Goldsmith
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When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.
Indra Nooyi
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In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.
Carlos Ghosn
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I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.
Jack Ma
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It's really easy to create a $1 billion company - you just have to solve a $10 billion problem.
Naveen Jain
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Another tormentor inquired if it was true that I had installed two ping-pong tables in my basement. I asked, was it a crime? No, he said, but why two? Is that a crime? I countered, and they all laughed.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.
Harlan Coben
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I've learned very, very, very clearly that money does not equal happiness or security, either.
Damien Rice
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When the sales guys run the company, the product guys do not matter so much, and a lot of them just turn off.
Steve Jobs