"Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development - it has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony - and in service."

-- Akio Morita

#Running Quotes #Mean Quotes #Long Quotes

“I think if the general exodus that seems to be going on occurs it's going to be a disaster,.”
“There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.”
“Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We've lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!”
“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.”

Source : "NIELS BOHR DOODLE GOOGLE: Great quotes from a man at the nucleus of atomic understanding" by Michael Cavna, www.washingtonpost.com. October 7, 2012.
“We are not concerned about innovation shifting from the U.S. I still believe that the U.S. still has capabilities for innovation.”
“You think you're prepared. You think you've done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then-whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that'll knock your little world off its axis. Something that'll either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos.”
“Iâ€™ve never had anyoneâ€™s approval, so Iâ€™ve learned to live without it.”
“In all of history, we have found just one cure for errorâ€”a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.”

Source : David Brin (1999). “The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us To Choose Between Privacy And Freedom?”, p.10, Basic Books

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