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"The corporation is the "master", the employee is the "servant". Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee could not make a living, the employee needs the corporation more than vice versa."
"As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel."
"Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind."
"The business of America is business."
"No enterprise can exist for itself alone."
"Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade."
"That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise."
"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference."
"A good design is not a democratic consensus."
"Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively."
"The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart."
"Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone."
"A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon."
"Industry pays debts, while despair increases them."
"Drive thy business or it will drive thee."
"Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee."
"The first mistake in public business is the going into it."
"This market right now is moving on nothing more than emotions. Guess what? It almost always moves on emotions."
"Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals. Success is the ability to fulfill your desires with effortless ease. And yet success, including the creation of wealth, has always been considered to be a process that requires hard work and it is often considered to be at the expense of others. We need a more spiritual approach to success and to affluence which is the abundant flow of all good things to you."
"Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name."
