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"Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be beaten."
"We intend to conduct our business in a way that not only meets but exceeds the expectations of our customers, business partners, shareholders, and creditors, as well as the communities in which we operate and society at large."
"I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth."
"Ambition can creep as well as soar."
"The difference in winning & losing is most often, not quitting."
"In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing."
"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."
"The most important actions are never comfortable."
"The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe."
"Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on."
"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away."
"All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities."
"Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker."
"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."
"30% of all people will never believe you. Do not allow your colleagues and employees to work for you. Instead, let them work for a common goal."
"Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature."
"What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love."
"To suppose that the value of a common stock is determined purely by a corporation's earnings discounted by the relevant interest rates and adjusted for the marginal tax rate is to forget that people have burned witches, gone to war on a whim, risen to the defense of Joseph Stalin and believed Orson Welles when he told them over the radio that the Martians had landed."
"Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business. My business."
"If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper of parental function, degrading parents to mere intermediaries between their children and the market. This indeed is a social revoluation in our time!"
