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Jai Ganesh

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Business Quotes - III

Business Quotes - III

1. Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. - Bill Gates

2. I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act. - Jennifer Aniston

3. If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something. - Rupert Murdoch

4. If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail. - Jeff Bezos

5. Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon. - Winston Churchill

6. Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. - Thomas A. Edison

7. Great companies are built on great products. - Elon Musk

8. I want to put a ding in the universe. - Steve Jobs

9. The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative. - Elon Musk

10. If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance. - Abraham Lincoln

11. When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked. - Elon Musk

12. The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?' - Jeff Bezos.

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