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576 Business magnate Quotes

Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything you call life was made up by people no smarter than you.
Life Broad Smart Discover
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Overnight success stories take a long time.
Overnight Story Success Long
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We had nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Nothing Lose Everything Gain
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It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple.

Take Make Hardwork Simple
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In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.

First Years Life Habits
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Marketing is about values. It’s a complicated and noisy world, and we’re not going to get a chance to get people to remember much about us. No company is. So we have to be really clear about what we want them to know about us.

Marketing Values Complicated World
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Life is about creating and living experiences that are worth sharing.

Life Create Living Experience
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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there.

Want Die People Heaven
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The were good times, there were hard times, but there were never bad times.

Good Times Hard Bad
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Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Innovate Mistake Admit Quick
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Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

Technology Nothing Important Faith
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Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later.

Course Connect Impossible Look
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It’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.

Technology Married Liberal Art
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Recruiting is hard. It’s just finding the needles in the haystack. You can’t know enough in a one-hour interview.

Recruit Needles Haystack Enough
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Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

Stumble Follow Curious Intuition
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Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.

Design Funny Word People
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We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

Shame Steal Great Ideas
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Without passion, any rational person would give up!

Passion Without Rational Person
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Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Hungry Stay Foolish Wish
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Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Death Life Best Single
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If you want it, you can fly, you just have to trust you a lot.

Want Fly Trust A lot
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You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

Something Trust Gut Destiny
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Everything is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.

Quality Everything Simple Rule
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Follow your heart, but check it with your head.

Follow Heart Check Head
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We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

Hire People Make Things
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You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.

Mandate Productivity Provide Tools
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Some mistakes will be made along the way. That’s good. Because some decisions are being made along the way. We’ll find the mistakes. We’ll fix them.

Mistake Good Decision Along
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You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve.

Never Meeting Telephone Idea
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We all have a short period of time on this earth-We probably only have the opportunity to do a few things really great and do them well. None of us has any idea how long we’re going to be here nor do I, but my feeling is I’ve got to accomplish a lot of these things while I’m young.

Period Short Opportunity Great
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Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Someday New Long Gradual
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Ask for feedback from people with diverse backgrounds. Each one will tell you one useful thing. If you’re at the top of the chain, sometimes people won’t give you honest feedback because they’re afraid. In this case, disguise yourself, or get feedback from other sources.

Feedback Background Chain Honest
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Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

Everyone Sense Moment Influence
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The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

Broad Understand Human Experience
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In your life you only get to do so many things and right now we’ve chosen to do this, so let’s make it great.

Life Many Things Choose
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People don’t know what they want until you show it to them. That’s why I never rely on marketing research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.

People Rely Marketing Research
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Shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you’re just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.

Shake Erroneous Notion Embrace
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I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.

Think Something Good Wonderful
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Your customers don’t care about you. They don’t care about your product or service. They care about themselves, their dreams, their goals. Now, they will care much more if you help them reach their goals, and to do that, you must understand their goals, as well as their needs and deepest desires.

Customer Care Product Service
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The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we’ve got to risk it too.

Great Artist Risk Failure
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Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

Design Fundamental Soul Human
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Great engineers are a huge multiplier.
Great Engineer Huge Multiply
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I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

Freedom Gives I Love Life
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I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are.

Each Family Felt Life
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The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

Around Attempt Balloons Finding
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And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

Challenge Obviously Our Own
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So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.

Airline Create Else Experience
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Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Backing Between Business Dividing
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I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.

Certainly Dyslexic Failed Grasp
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You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Doing Falling Following Learn
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My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, 'Oh God, I've got to do this today.'

Anything Attitude Day Enjoy
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