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Jai Ganesh

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Building Quotes - IV

Building Quotes - IV

1. Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs. - Barack Obama

2. 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. - Mark Zuckerberg

3. My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley. - Mark Zuckerberg

4. I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen. - Corazon Aquino

5. What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they're proud of. - Mark Zuckerberg

6. Facebook is inherently viral. There are lots of sites that include a contact importer, and for lots of them it doesn't really make sense. For Facebook it fits so well. It wasn't until a few years in that we started building some tools that made it easier to import friends to the site. That was a huge thing that spiked growth. - Mark Zuckerberg

7. The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor. - John Kenneth Galbraith

8. 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. - Larry Page

9. The job of nation building, the job of nation leadership in a difficult, complex coalition has worked. - Azim Premji

10. I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly. - Steve Wozniak

11. We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building. - Orville Wright

12. Sometimes I get extremely disturbed with the things that are written. But you can't do anything about it. As a celebrity, you are putting yourself out there to be judged, and that's fine. I am now learning not to get affected by such things. I am building my career and making choices that I think are right while minding my own business. - Anushka Sharma.

 

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