Martin Cooper Quotes

I got a Motorola Droid that I use. I also have a Jitterbug.

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

As long as I can make a phone call and do a WhatsApp, I'm fine.

The entire time I was modeling, I was trying and failing at businesses. In fact, we would have started our business much sooner had I been more successful.

I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.

It was a no-brainer that the cellular route would be a great success in Africa.

We initially targeted pager networks, which have been suffering for the last decade due to cell phone sales.

I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago!

I also love to surf the Net and talk on the phone with friends.

I have never sent a fax, and I've never even sent a text message.

One of the most powerful scientific tools ever invented is the telephone.

We didn't grow up in a jock household. In fact, my dad is an entrepreneur. He was a computer programmer; he was a professor of actuarial science at Wharton for 13 years, then started his own company that was software-based.

I'm always trying whatever the latest telephone is.

We thought our vision was right, which was that someday everyone would be walking around carrying phones with them.

About Lucknow, I have become a frequent visitor here now and have started knowing the city quite well. In fact, I was also planning to set up a cafe here as I loved the city so much. There is so much scope for business here.

The first cellular systems didn't become commercially available until 1983. Most of the phones before then were in fact car phones.

I started selling corn dogs, ended up in the music industry. That's how it all started.

I've always been business-minded. I worked in corporate America before becoming an actress and knew that acting wasn't the end but a means to an end. It gave me the platform and the exposure I needed to do my philanthropic work. It also gave me the financial security to focus on my other businesses, start new businesses, and even help other people start businesses.

I might add, the whites who came here only say 50 years ago as immigrants have come into this country, they have set up businesses. They've developed these businesses into an industry.

I went out and got little jobs. I was selling candy as a teenager, selling newspapers. But as I got older, I didn't want to sell that anymore. I wanted to make more money.

I didn't really do many business ventures throughout my career because I would have an idea and then before I'd have a chance to make something of it, I'd see someone else do it. I just liked to watch my fellow artists become entrepreneurs and be people who can inspire the next generation. I did that more with my songs.

And ever since then [I] have set up businesses basically out of frustration. I mean, I set up Virgin Atlantic with one second-hand 747 because I hated the experience of flying on other people's airlines. And I thought, you know, I could try to create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on. And people liked it.

It's not to give people fish It's not to teach them how to fish It's to build a new and better fishing industry

I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business.

I boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed.