"A model should be as simple as it can be but no simpler"
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"If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith."
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"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art"
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"A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'"
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"A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there."
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"We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds."
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"Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised."
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"Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business."
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"Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him."
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"Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement."
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"Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth."
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"The best time to do great customer service is when a customer is upset."
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"Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is."
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"Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules."
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"Rich dad went on to explain that the world was filled with different types of entrepreneurs. There are entrepreneurs who are big and small, rich and poor, honest and crooked, for-profit and not-for-profit, saint and sinner, small town and international, and successes and failures. He said, "The word entrepreneur is a big word and it means different things to different people.""
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""Why is the creative entrepreneur the riskiest type to be?" I asked. "Because being creative means you are often a pioneer. It is easy to copy a successful and proven product. It is also less risky. If you learn to innovate, create, or invent your way to success, you are an entrepreneur creating new value rather than an entrepreneur who wins by copying.""
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"Actually I did not invent the seven habits, they are universal principles and most of what I wrote about is just common sense. I am embarrassed when people talk about the Covey Habits, and dislike the idea of being some sort of guru."
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"An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success."
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"One can often trace the sources of a brand personality - here it is the advertising, there the pack, somewhere else some physical element of the product. Of course, the personality is clearest and strongest when all the elements are consistent."
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"Yesterday I saw a chicken crossing the road. I asked it why. It told me it was none of my business."
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