Businessman Quotes

There could be no better time to fully integrate Infinity with Viacom's tremendous portfolio of assets. Infinity is performing at record levels and continues to generate a tremendous amount of free cash flow that will now fully benefit Viacom.

I skip through the programming to watch the commercials.

Whenever you're successful you owe that success to the people in the community, because they are the ones buying your product.

We have people working for us full-time because they were forced to retire at 65. I know that I never want to stop working, and I am glad that I can offer positions to others who feel the same way.

We have developed overlays for the keys of the cash registers with the help of the Braille Institute, so that blind crew members can take orders and help our guests.

We find that other employees are very enthusiastic about their fellow crew members who have disabilities-or what they previously thought of as disabilities.

It's no secret that I've become known for my strong political views.

In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women.

In addition we also hire many senior citizens.

I've often been asked to run for office. I have no desire to do that, I would not want my time with the family or the company restricted because of the demands of an elected position.

And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.

I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.

If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.

Architecture is politics.

What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.

Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.

We've already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of Foundations, potentially with government support, is promising - more than promising, I think, it's substantial.

The culmination of all of that was the decision to start a company, which became Lotus, to do a product, which became 1-2-3. By the time I reached that point it had been four years, and it felt like a lifetime, but really it was kind of evolutionary.

That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed.

No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.

I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.

I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance.

It got so ridiculous that I was like, there's no way this is going to last.

I knew that if I concentrated on AdBrite, I could probably make a big company out of it.

We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.

People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.