"Nothing is ever enough when what you are looking for isn't what you really want."
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"Why worry? If you've done the very best you can, worrying won't make it any better"
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"My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization."
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"I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it inappropriate for even an exceptionally profitable company to fund an operation once it appears to have unending losses in prospect. Adam Smith would disagree with my first proposition and Karl Marx would disagree with my second; the middle ground is the only position that leaves me comfortable."
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"Would your reply possibly be this? Well, it all depends on what my tax rate will be on the gain you're saying we're going to make. If the taxes are too high, I would rather leave the money in my savings account, earning a quarter of 1 percent. Only in Grover Norquist's imagination does such a response exist."
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"In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either."
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"The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact."
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"The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management."
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"Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design."
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"Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders."
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"I always entertain great hopes."
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"The most important job of the entrepreneur begins before there is a business or employees. The job of an entrepreneur is to design a business that can grow, employ many people, add value to its customers, be a responsible corporate citizen, bring prosperity to all those that work on the business, be charitable, and eventually no longer need the entrepreneur. Before there is a business, a successful entrepreneur is designing this type of business in his or her mind's eye. According my rich dad, this is the job of a true entrepreneur."
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"The point to remember about selling things is that, as well as creating atmosphere and excitement around your products, you've got to know what you're selling."
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"The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand."
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"Insults are the business of the court."
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"I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts."
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"The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge."
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"Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait."
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"You cannot innovate by copying."
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"The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason."
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