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1439 Businessman Quotes

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

Analytic Big Camp Focused
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My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.

About Actually Any Being
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Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected.

Accomplish Built Company Connected
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At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people's capacity to build and maintain relationships.

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In addition to building better products, a more open world will also encourage businesses to engage with their customers directly and authentically. More than four million businesses have Pages on Facebook that they use to have a dialogue with their customers. We expect this trend to grow as well.

Addition Also Better Building
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This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.

Amaze Bets Big Cycle
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No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn't create that - society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that's good.

Being Come Create Done
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I updated my grilling app, iGrill, today and it now has Facebook integration that lets you see what other people are grilling right now around the world. Awesome.

App Around Awesome Facebook
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I don't have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

Alarm Blackberry Clock Me
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Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.
Closer Desktop Lot Mobile
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For the first time we're allowing developers who don't work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That's a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

Advantage Allowing Application Because
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The real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Actually Boring Computers Facebook
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When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don't want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren't. There are pranks, IMs.

Accuse College Did Excuse
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I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.

Academic Complex Culture Elegant
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I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don't pretend that if Facebook didn't exist, that this wouldn't even be possible. Of course, it would have.

Able Communicate Day Even
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I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we've funded ever since by putting ads on the side.

Dorm Ever Facebook Literally
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People say 'I want to be rich'. The question is, 'Are you willing to do what it takes?'

People Question Rich Say
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Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

Academic Both Education Financial
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Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.

Academics Affects Air Base
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We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

Books Create Hard Learn
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Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.
Every Inside Lies Opportunity
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You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

Days Easy Over Smart
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When people are lame, they love to blame.

Blame Lame Love People
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A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

Game Like Look Mirror
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If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

Best Find Someone Already
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The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Along Desire Disappointment Dream
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In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy.

Academy Day Marine Memorize
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If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

Ask Country Give Lead
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I would say raising capital is one of the weakest things for most entrepreneurs.

Capital Entrepreneurs Most Raising
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Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

Great Spent Leadership Military
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As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

Kid Really Rich Wanted
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Confidence comes from discipline and training.

Confidence Discipline Training
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When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

Bad Emerge Entrepreneurs Real
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I've actually taken companies public, I've actually busted companies, I've actually gone broke.

Actually Broke Busted Companies
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I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.

Beautiful Full Hawaii Places
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So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.

Conquer Corps Fear Higher
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If you're working for a good company and you're happy there, and you're being compensated accordingly, and your work satisfies you, you should stay there.

Accordingly Happy Company Good
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When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.

Average Business Handle Last
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It's time to start thinking differently about money and debt and start the healing process - and the process toward wealth and freedom. 'Freedom from Bad Debt' can get you started.

Toward Wealth Debt Differently
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The rich continue to get rich the same way they always have - by understanding how money works and making their money work for them.

Continue Work Always Money
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Millions of Americans and people around the world, especially young people who face intense financial challenges today, haven't been taught how to take control of their financial future.

Challenges Control Face Financial
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Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual's cash flow and wealth.

Building Cash Estate Wealth
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If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It's like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

Green Happen Kind Lights
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Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

Opportunity People Rich Right
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Often, in the real world, it's not the smart that get ahead but the bold.

Ahead Bold Often Real
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I've always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

Always Harder Inspired Live
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I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

Capitalist Decided Rather Really
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Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket.

Assets Money Pocket Take
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Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

Class Everything Message Rich
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The problem with real estate is that it's local. You have to understand the local market.

Estate Local Market Problem
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