Samuel J. Palmisano Quotes
From now on, the technology companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at listening and a sophisticated understanding of their customers' industries.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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I want to be a female artist who is honest. I want to encourage other girls to be honest with who they are and not try to be picture perfect, because it's a woman's imperfections that make her perfect anyway.
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Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
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Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.
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I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.
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Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.
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My intention was to create a work of art which would transcend the visible, which cannot be perceived except in stages, with the understanding that it is a partial revelation and not the perpetuation of the existing. My aim is to show what can be seen within the limits of possibility which exists in the midst of coming into being.
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People don't buy technology, they buy content...You have got to have content that is married to (technology).
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We need to win something for the fans because they have been patient and very understanding and we owe them.
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My diet is much better. I eat what I have to. The older you get, the better you get at making sacrifices.
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I cannot recall any moment of clarity about becoming a writer. I always liked to read. That's what did it.
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From now on, the technology companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at listening and a sophisticated understanding of their customers' industries.
