Businessman Quotes

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.

Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

The world is on a bumpy journey to a new destination and the New Normal.

The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence.

Most people are under exposed to global assets, including foreign stocks, bonds and currencies.

It is hard to imagine that, having downgraded the US, S & P will not follow suit on at least one of the other members of the dwindling club of sovereign AAAs. If this were to materialise and involve a country like France, for example, it could complicate the already fragile efforts by Europe to resc

Investors should invest on what they know. The biggest mistake is to invest on what they don't know.

Investors should be cautiously positioned as the global economy and markets face major uncertainties. The downgrade will be a further headwind to growth and job creation in the U.S.

For the next three years, we're going to see different economies work out different problems. For European economies, especially Greece, it would be through default.

Because in the New Normal you are more worried about the return of your capital, not return on your capital.

America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance.

Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes?

Investors have few spare tires left. Think of the image of a car on a bumpy road to an uncertain destination that has already used up its spare tire. The cash reserves of people have been eaten up by the recent market volatility.

As a whole, investors should welcome attempts to safeguard the integrity of markets. You need very clear rules applied to markets.

With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I learn more from Twitter than any survey or discussion with a big company.

With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating playlists and listening to music through it.

There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.

There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.

The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'

Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.

People just want to have access to all of the world's music.

Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.

It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.

In order for a service to be social, you've really got to start from the ground up. The fact that almost a third of the U.S. population have even heard of Spotify is really because they've seen it on Facebook and friends have been sharing.

In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga and Britney Spears.