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Every business, every single business, is going to see more automation and more AI. People have to get on the program on that, or they're going to be dinosaurs.

Brad Jacobs, QXO, XPO, United Rentals & United Waste | David Senra
Brad Jacobs

I stood up and told the company that five years from now, we will have a new competitor, and that new competitor is going to be in every business that we are in, except they're going to be faster, more efficient, and more capable. And they're going to put us out of business. And the only way that we're going to prevent that is we are going to become that company.

Michael Dell, Dell Technologies
Michael Dell

I saw a problem with a product that everybody uses every day. As a user, I hated it. So I thought if I can solve that problem, other people would buy that product.

James Dyson, Dyson
James Dyson

The whole point of this is to help other people. That's it. That's the entire point of this existence.

Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Colossus & Positive Sum
Patrick O'Shaughnessy

You want to interact with people who you respect, and you want to be picking their brain all the time.

Brad Jacobs, QXO, XPO, United Rentals & United Waste | David Senra
Brad Jacobs

A much better way to run your life is just to concentrate on one thing at a time.

James Dyson, Dyson
James Dyson

The more it was turned down, the more encouraged I became.

James Dyson, Dyson
James Dyson

Satisfaction is a pretty dangerous thing. There's a kind of smugness to it, that I'm perfect and I don't need to do any better than this. I can relax. And I just don't think like that.

James Dyson, Dyson
James Dyson

It's the person, not the business that you're backing.

James Dyson, Dyson
James Dyson

No lying. If you don't have an answer, the answer is: 'I don't know. I'm going to call you back.'

Michael Ovitz, Creative Artists Agency (CAA)
Michael Ovitz
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