"Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock."
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"There is far more danger in public than in private monopoly, for when Government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayers. Government never makes ends meetand that is the first requisite of business."
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"There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them."
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"Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy."
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"Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!"
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"The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient."
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"Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the people running the company and the people doing the work. They no longer have an inherent feel or a passion about the products. The creative people, who are the ones who care passionately, have to persuade five layers of management to do what they know is the right thing to do."
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"Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?"
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"A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understand this, the sky's the limit."
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"In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees."
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"Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to."
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"If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion."
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"A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one."
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"Wherever I see people doing something the way it's always been done, the way it's "supposed" to be done, following the same old trends, well, that's just a big red flag to me to go look somewhere else."
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"The current model is global suicide. We need a revolution. Revolutionary thinking. Revolutionary action. Natural resources are becoming more and more scarce."
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"Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure."
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"All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury."
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"Advertising is the life of trade."
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"Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow."
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"It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere."
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