German - Businessman | January 21, 1944 -
You cannot make money with a hockey team. You cannot make money with a hotel, either, and you cannot make money with a golf club. I have all three of them. When you have a certain amount of money, you do silly things - because it's pretty to have a golf course and it's interesting to have a hockey team.
Hasso Plattner
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I'm a Berliner - fast, loud, obnoxious, industrious, brutally open.
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I'm not just a scientist.
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Americans are not afraid of the future.
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Kids only learn that the stove is hot when they put their finger on and they burn it. This, unfortunately, is the limitation of our precious brain.
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I am grateful for the great education at a public university that Germany gave me, and that - added to a little luck - allowed me to achieve. Education is the key to a career, and its basis has to be provided by government.
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I made my money with software - encoded knowledge without which few products and services can exist today - and so it seemed imperative that this would be the field where I would give something back.
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I believe that whoever is successful should help ensure that the next generation can be successful, too.
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At Stanford, we teach 'design thinking' - that is, we put together small, interdisciplinary groups to figure out what the true needs are and then to apply the art of engineering to serve them.
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I can't control my frustration.
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Africa touches me. At night, there's this thought in your brain that a million years ago we started here.
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Fans don't like owners. They know they are somewhere - actually, in Germany, some owners are anonymous. Fans don't sympathize with owners, so ownership stays in the back.
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