Quotes of: Gates Keyword

I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.

Harold Prince

Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.

Ian Schrager

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

Jeff Bezos

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.

Jeff Bezos

If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

Jeff Bezos

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.

Jeff Bezos

Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That's why there's the old saw: location, location, location.

Jeff Bezos

I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.

Jeff Bezos

You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.

Jeff Bezos

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.

Jeff Bezos

America has been conditioned to think of pasta as the never-ending pasta bowl and Olive Garden.

Joe Bastianich

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

Jason Calacanis

The companies that won't do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc.

Jason Calacanis

The Blackberry is really essential for keeping up on my emails when I'm out of the office, which is a lot.

David Neeleman

The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

David Sarnoff

I believe that everyone should participate in democracy and enjoy doing it.

David Stern

My own basketball background was ripping up my ACL in a lawyer's league.

David Stern

More people deserted our party and we have never recovered.

Denis Thatcher

It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

Edwin Armstrong

It's so hard to figure out what's going on in biological systems. You just can't see them.

Erez Lieberman Aiden

I'd vote for Mickey Mouse before I voted for John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.