"My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did."

-- Sanford I. Weill

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“They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.”
“When you're watching, I find two things happen. You either watch a film and it's really good and then you think, "Why can't I do that?" Or you watch a film and it's not good, and you think, "Why am I doing this?" So either way, it feels like being at work.”
“I am often fond of saying the Trekkers are passionate about a hobby, their hobby is 'Star Trek.' They are by and large very imaginative, very intelligent people, and they certainly have been more than generous to me.”
“Coffee is the ultimate stress buster for me and I need my cup of coffee in the morning to kick start my day.”
“We are the most focused company that I know of or have read of or have any knowledge of. We say no to good ideas every day. We say no to great ideas in order to keep the amount of things we focus on very small in number, so that we can put enormous energy behind the ones we do choose.....It's not just saying yes to the right products, it's saying no to many products that are good ideas, but just not nearly as good as other ones.”

Source : "Apple COO Tim Cook: 'We Have No Interest In Being In The TV Market'" by Dan Frommer, www.businessinsider.com. February 23, 2010.
“I didn't cost the Series. I cost a game in the regular season.”
“His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.”

Source : Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham (1857). “The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham”, p.184
“Television is just another appliance- It's just a toaster with pictures.”

Source : Interview with Reason Magazine, May 1982.

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