"I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager."
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""...piling up zeros in your bank account, or cars in your driveway, won't in and of itself make you successful. Rather, true success is based on a constant flow of giving and recieving. In fact, if you look up affluence in the dictionary, you'll see its root is a Latin phrase meaning "to flow with abundance". So in order to be truly affluent, you must always let what you have recieved flow back into the world.""
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"The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business."
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"The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself."
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"Always let your employees come to work with a smile."
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"Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city."
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"Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution."
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"Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs."
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"I look at my annual budgets for everything and anything, and I look to see where I can save the most money on those items. Saving 30% to 50% buying in bulk - replenishable items from toothpaste to soup, or whatever I use a lot of - is the best guaranteed return on investment you can get anywhere."
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"Your income is directly related to your philosophy, NOT the economy."
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"Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity."
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"The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager."
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"The fewer data needed, the better the information. And an overload of information, that is, anything much beyond what is truly needed, leads to information blackout. It does not enrich, but impoverishes."
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"The next thing to be said about what long-range planning is not, is that it does not deal with future decisions. It deals with the futurity of present decisions. Decisions exist only in the present. The question that faces the long-range planner is not what we should do tomorrow."
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"The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance."
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"If a business is to be considered a continuous process, instead of a series of disjointed stop-and-go events, then the economic universe in which a business operates-and all the major events within it-must have rhyme, rhythm, or reason."
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"A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience."
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"The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously."
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"What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows."
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"When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary."
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