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576 Business magnate Quotes

When Brexiters told the public that people were exaggerating, that there would be a financial meltdown, I think it's been proven that they were not exaggerating.

Been Financial I Think People
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Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

Accessible Basically Goal Information
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I can't really comment on rumors.
Comment Really Rumors
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The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

Always Basically Engine Everything
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.

Few Managers Many Rather
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It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.

Calculate Circular Complicated Importance
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If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

Beach Company Ended Long Time
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If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

Changing Changing The World Excited Get
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.

Access Care Driving Going
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If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

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It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

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Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

Believe Big Business Change
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Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.
Always Area Big Big Companies
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I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.

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Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know.

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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

Change Incremental Need Revolutionary
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For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.

About Both Important Me
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We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.

About Conversation Democracy Going
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Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

Both Combine Company Electric
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Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.
Companies Fundamentally Future Lots
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I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress that.

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We want to build technology that everybody loves using, and that affects everyone. We want to create beautiful, intuitive services and technologies that are so incredibly useful that people use them twice a day. Like they use a toothbrush. There aren't that many things people use twice a day.

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You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies.

Best Best Way Come Companies
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We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.

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I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.

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You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

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I have always believed that technology should do the hard work - discovery, organization, communication - so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers! That means making our products work together seamlessly.

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You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.
Google Great May Still
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The idea that everyone should slavishly work so they do something inefficiently so they keep their job - that just doesn't make any sense to me. That can't be the right answer.

Answer Any Everyone Idea
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We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.

Because Boring Building Change
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If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.

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If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
Exist Meaning Money Women
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Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.

English Find Like Look
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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Business Make Necessary Others
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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Ever Free High Hope
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After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

After Ceases Certain Certain Point
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The more you own, the more you know you don't own.

Know More Own You
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I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors.

Competitors Enemies Friends No Friends
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Don't sleep too much. If you sleep three hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.

Each Each Night Extra Half
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Never ask for small loans.

Ask Loans Never Small
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When I took over Louis Vuitton, everyone said, 'It's already so big - what more can you do?' And since then, we've multiplied that success tenfold.

Big Everyone Louis More
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Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of modernity and creativity in our organization. It's a symbol.

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It's true that I am not from the south and I have a certain reserve. I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone. But it is more a question of style.

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I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations.

Fiscal France French Fulfill
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I've always been pleased with the investments I've made with my friend Albert Frere and I regret not having followed him more, because I would have been a lot richer.

Albert Always Been Followed
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I would never diminish the quality of Hermes. Hermes can be an even rarer and greater quality business, if they ever wanted to work with us.

Business Diminish Ever Greater
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Louis Vuitton, the world's biggest luxury brand in terms of sales, is planning to dampen its expansion worldwide and focus on high-end products to preserve its exclusive image.

Biggest Brand Exclusive Expansion
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In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.
Build Business Heritage Luxury
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Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.

Brought Childhood Enjoyable Entrepreneur
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I meet the designers very often, we discuss the products, they show me their ideas, we discuss the ad campaigns and every new invention that we can find for the future.

Campaigns Designers Discuss Future
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