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In the business world... The rear-view mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

1991 Letter to Shareholders

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Buffett, Warren. Letter to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders. 1991.

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Jobs, Steve. Stanford Commencement Address. 12 June 2005, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

We need to ask ourselves not only what computers can do, but what computers should do.

Satya Nadella

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Nadella, Satya. Quoted in “Microsoft Build: Data privacy must be protected, CEO Satya Nadella tells technologists.” Written by Rachel Lerman. The Seattle Times, 7 May 2018. Originally a keynote speech. Build conference. 7 May 2018, Seattle Convention Center, Seattle, WA, USA.

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Field, Marshall. Instruction to manager of his Chicago department store. c. 1906. Marshall Field Department Store, Chicago, IL, USA.

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Getty, Jean Paul. How to Be Rich. Playboy Press, 1965.

If you hire only those people whom you understand, the company will never get better people than you are.

Soichiro Honda

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Honda, Soichiro. Quoted in Honda Motor: The Men, the Management, the Machines by Tetsuo Sakiya. Kodansha, 1985.

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Baruch, Bernard M. Address before the Senate's Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program. Senate Committee meeting. 24 Oct. 1947, Senate Office Building, Washington, DC, USA.

The power of the press is very great, but not so great as the power of suppress.

Alfred Harmsworth

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Harmsworth, Alfred. Daily Mail. c. 1918.

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Ogilvy, David. Confessions of an Advertising Man. Atheneum, 1963, ch. 5.

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Wilson, Charles. "Testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee on his Proposed Nomination for Secretary of Defence." Senate Armed Services Committee meeting. 15 Jan. 1953, Washington, DC, USA.

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Baruch, Bernard M. Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. First session of the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. 14 June 1946, Hunter College, New York, NY, USA.

Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.

Steve Jobs

Last words.

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Jobs, Steve. Last words. 5 Oct. 2011, Palo Alto, CA, USA.

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Ford, Henry. "Ford's Weekly Will Make Its Bow Sunday." New York Tribune, 10 Jan. 1919, p. 6.

Only the little people pay taxes.

Leona Helmsley

Quoted in The New York Times

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Helmsley, Leona. Quoted in "Maid Testifies Helmsley Denied Paying Taxes." Written by The Associated Press. The New York Times, 12 July 1989.

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Edison, Thomas A. Quoted in Thomas A. Edison: The Authentic Life Story of the World's Greatest Inventor, written by Francis Miller. Stanley Paul, 1932.

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Carnegie, Andrew. "The Best Fields for Philanthropy." North American Review, 25 Nov. 1889.

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Carnegie, Andrew. "The Best Fields for Philanthropy." The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings. Penguin Classics, 2006.

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Edison, Thomas. Quoted in "Edison in His Laboratory" by Martin André Rosanoff. Harper's Monthly, Sept. 1932.

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Gates, Bill and Nathan Myhrvold and Peter Rinearson. The Road Ahead. Viking Press, 1995, ch. 3.

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Buffett, Warren. Quoted in "Meet Investing's Newest Stars." Fortune Magazine, 9 Mar. 1992.

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Triumph of the Nerds. Directed by Paul Sen, narrated by Robert X. Cringely, Johnb Gau Productions for Channel 4 and Oregon Public Broadcasting, Channel 4/PBS, 14 Apr. 1996.