"There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible."
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"Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers."
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"We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better."
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"The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs."
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"It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other."
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"Please all, and you will please none."
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"If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets."
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"When the nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me. I looked to the German press, which prided itself on the freedom of the press, and it failed me. Until at last the churches stood alone, and that for which I once had little regard earned my respect."
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"Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them."
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"All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth."
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"It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living."
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"The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get."
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"Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort."
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"If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow."
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"Free your heart from hatred - forgive. Free your mind from worries - most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less."
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"I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity."
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"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own."
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"It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it."
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"A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs."
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"The biggest mistake you could ever make is to think you work for anyone but yourself"
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