"England is a nation of shopkeepers."
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"Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival."
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"Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners."
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"To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines."
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"Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance."
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"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common."
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"Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them."
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"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship."
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"Accounting is the language of business."
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"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
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"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
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"They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles."
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"I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it."
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"The common question that gets asked in business is, why? That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not?"
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"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
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"A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships."
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"We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode."
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"Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off."
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"Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right."
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"It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction."
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