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Jai Ganesh

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Built Quotes - V

Built Quotes - V

1. My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. I only started the company when I realized I could be an engineer forever. - Steve Wozniak

2. It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now. - Steve Jobs

3. What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself. - Steve Wozniak

4. A lot of credit goes to Google TV for helping that process get started and helping to build something like Chromecast. -  Sundar Pichai

5. Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community. - Kofi Annan

6. There are three lessons in philanthropy - one, involve the family, especially the spouse. She can be a remarkable driver of your initiative. Two, you need to build an institution, and you need to scale it up. Choose a leader for philanthropy whom you trust. Three, philanthropy needs patience, tenacity and time. - Azim Premji

7. Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it. - Xenophon

8. How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter? - Boris Becker

9. I want to build the India that we all want. - Roopa Ganguly

10. To have strongly integrated managers who have a deep understanding of technology is a rare and difficult combination to build. You have to invest a lot in selecting and training these people. - Azim Premji

11. I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build. - Barbra Streisand

12. We understand how to build and manage businesses that involve technology, engineering, and people at a large scale on a global platform. - Azim Premji

13. Words build bridges into unexplored regions. - Adolf Hitler

14. Vegas is definitely a new challenge, but I wanted to be able to put on a different type of show. You get to do so much more when you don't have to put your stage in trucks after the show every night - we got to build a venue specifically for my show. It's going to be more like a party than a typical concert. - Britney Spears.

 

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