Businessman Quotes

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

We're in this period where we're getting good data rates. I would say we're getting data rates that are like the data rates we got when we launched RealAudio in 1995.

We tell anybody who asks that we think Apple is making a big mistake by not being compatible.

Personally, I just got one of these Vonage IP phones. It's actually pretty cool. It comes with one of these Cisco ATA routers where you just plug an analog handset in.

Mobile entertainment is a huge opportunity. We are committed to mobile just as much as we are to PCs.

Because Microsoft seems to sometimes not trust customer choice, they salt XP with all these little gizmos and trap doors to get people to try Microsoft stuff. But the reality is that we're downloading more players than we ever have on a worldwide basis.

Apple does great products, but at the end of the day we think consumers want choice, consumers want openness.

The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

Usually bad guys are much more fun to play and much more interesting to watch.

It's important to do research. I do that in every play, every actor does.

I didn't want to spend my life behind a desk.

Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.

China will be the answer to Japan's problems.

Cars have a large engine in the front and you have a gearbox, which is cumbersome. Electric cars don't have this problem. The motor is much smaller, the battery is below you. This will allow you to play with different shapes.

At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!

As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.

As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing.

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

We have some worse scenarios for which we need to prepare as companies. For the moment, we're planning for the worst, and the worst is now, and the car market is down more than 15 percent in France. There is so much uncertainty.

We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.

To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.

More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going global, but the teams are being divided and scattered all over the planet.

Is Europe going to be breaking? I don't think so. I think the euro will stay. I think at the end of the day Europeans will find the solutions in order to hold Europe together.

If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.

I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.