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" When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to make the right decision' - they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves. "

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" The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially. "

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" The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none. "

" Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason. "

" Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics. "

" I discovered a long time ago that if I focus on doing the right thing for the long term to improve the lives of consumers and customers all over the world, the business results will come. "

" When you build a product, you make a lot of assumptions about the state of the art of technology, the best business practices, and potential customer usage/behavior. "

" To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by hype and tomfoolery rivalling, at times, that of carnival circuses. "

" Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships. "

" What we are doing is we are putting in significant training into the people we have currently to upgrade their skill resources, upgrade the presentation resources, and upgrade what we expect from them in terms of not business as usual. "

" Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. "

" Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people. "

" I suppose it's possible that a writer would have feeling for his characters, but I can't see how, because writing is such a meticulous, intricate, technical business. I wish I could say that I love my characters and that frequently they take over the book and run away with the plot and so on. But they don't exist. "

" Technology has long been the driver of growth in the music business from the invention of lacquers, eight-track players, vinyl, cassettes and CDs. "

" It's good to stand for something, to believe in something and base your business on values. "

" Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products. "

" I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two. "

" I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century. "

" Growing up on a family farm, I know firsthand the challenges of running a small business... challenges that only seem to be growing for today's entrepreneurs. "

" It's important to think good, speak good, and do good. If we want to see positive change in the world, then we need to connect to goodness. I try in everything I do, both in business and philanthropy, to make a positive change and do that by doing good. "

" Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. "

" If we all act together - business, governments, NGOs and citizens and, especially, the young - just imagine the good we could create. "

" After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. "

" You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings. "

" Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader. "

" Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business. "

" If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion. "

" Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible. "

" In the 1940s, the petroleum business was an American game, and it was enormously to our advantage that the world ran on oil. "

" Your customers are judging every aspect of every transaction and rating everything, from friendliness of people to ease of doing business to quality of product to service after the sale. "

" If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. "

Barack Obama