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Our company has indeed stumbled onto some of its new products. But never forget that you can only stumble if you're moving.

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

Our company was mortgaged to the hilt, and that did restrain us, and it's why we had to take in partners.

Our concept of eco-effectiveness means working on the right things - on the right products and services and systems - instead of making the wrong things less bad. Once you are doing the right things, then doing them "right," with the help of efficiency among other tools, makes perfect sense.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

Our fathers were actually business partners in the same real-estate firm, and we got together and thought, How can we get a movie together and get distribution and create a new movie genre? We started by making satires of commercials.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Our job if I can see straight and hear clearly and understand ~ is to make advertising and run advertising that is seen and read and heard ~ and remembered ~ for its reasonable and compelling truth.

Our jobs determine to a large extent what our lives are like. Is what you do for a living making you ill? Does it keep you from becoming a more fully realized person? Do you feel ashamed of what you have to do at work? All too often, the answer to such questions is yes. Yet it does not have to be like that. Work can be one of the most joyful, most fulfilling aspects of life. Whether it will be or not depends on the actions we collectively take.

Our model is to develop each business separately with its own shareholder and management - this way we can concentrate on the job in hand, rather than be part of some enormous and faceless conglomerate.

...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.

Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business.

Our patriotic fervor was the result of the old and widespread belief in the idea of American exceptionalism, the idea that America was a new thing in history, different from other countries. Other nations had evolved one way or another, evolved from tribes from a gathering of clans, from inevitabilities of language and tradition and geography. But America was born, and born of ideas: that all men are created equal, that they have been given by God certain rights that can be taken from them by no man, and that those rights combine to create a thing called freedom.

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Our premise is there are going to be a lot of winners. It's not winner take all. Other people do not have to lose for us to win.

Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.

Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.

Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.

Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

... overconfidence in one's own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This vanity, combined with extreme ignorance of conditions the knowledge of which is the very A B C of business and of life, produces more shipwrecks and heartaches than any other part of our mental make-up.

Overnight the digital age had changed the course of history for our company. Everything that we thought was in our control no longer was. But within a year we had invested in social media and digital experts. Now Starbucks is the number one brand on Facebook.

Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.

Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.

"Patents make our product defensible." The optimal number of times to use the P word in a presentation is one. Just once, say, "We have filed patents for what we are doing." Done. The second time you say it, venture capitalists begin to suspect that you are depending too much on patents for defensibility. The third time you say it, you are holding a sign above your head that says, "I am clueless.

Passion and love for a brand and its consumers sustain us. For how can we ever devote our continued highest energy to something if we don't believe in it passionately.

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?

People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

People are more willing to buy branded goods provided they are persuaded that they are getting value from them. And they need to be convinced of those benefits, in authentic everyday language, without being confronted by corporate-speak. Get it right, and you create a virtuous circle. Get it wrong, and you get punished for it.

People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.

Patience; this is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.

People are unlikely to know that they need a product which does not exist and the basis of market research in new and innovative products is limited in this regard.

People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.

People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.

People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.

People have different interpretations of "urgent".

People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.

People talk about the businesses of the future needing to be more agile and more responsive if they are to be successful. But this requires a deep change in the way organisations work.

People tell us the countries that we'll have the most difficulty with are France and Japan. They say, 'Nothing you do in the rest of the world will work for us.' But that's changing. The differences are narrowing.

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

People want economy, and they'll pay any price to get it.

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.