Businessman Quotes

We're obviously going to spend a lot in marketing because we think the product sells itself.

We can and must turn this around. If you're going to kill someone just pull the trigger.

We are pushing ahead as fast as we can for all audiences, whether for the business user, the child, or the digital music enthusiast.

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.

If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - you just pull the trigger. Angry discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger.

I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft.

I continue to see good growth in the mobile space; I expect to see PCs being the core driver in the home. And I mean that for entertainment along with the work-at-home space.

I continue to see a healthy PC market, very healthy. The machines will continue to morph; you'll see smaller machines that have more capability.

Apple really has no presence in business, and we think Vista's going to have a huge presence in business. We think we're going to help the corporate IT stack save money.

I will continue to distribute blankets, sleeping bags, warm clothing and food on a regular basis, in the hope that my modest efforts will give some comfort to those people we are able help.

I am just a person who is human, down to earth enjoying life... whatever god blesses you with. Enjoying life for me is just normal.

The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about.

I suppose I will go on selling newspapers until at last will come the late night final.

Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.

You never pull the trigger until you know you can win.

We're not programming to conservatives. We're just not eliminating their point of view.

I don't have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn't do my job.

CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad.

Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that.

Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.

The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.

Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again.

Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working.

I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery.

And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years.

And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan.

All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.

If left-wing extremism continues to flourish in parts which have natural resources of minerals, the climate for investment would certainly be affected.

Why do I need succession planning? I'm very alert, I'm very vibrant. I have no intention to retire.

I've already figured out when I'm going to be No. 2 and No. 1.