"Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money."
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"Just as one year in a dog's life is equivalent to seven years in a human life, one year in the high-technology business is like seven years in any other industry."
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"The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain."
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"If joining IBM was commitment, not employment, and the company engaged in something more than business, it had a right to demand of its men unconditional loyalty, Watson believed."
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"It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor."
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"I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service."
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"An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally."
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"Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it." -"
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"Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters."
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"One method of staying ahead of rising asset prices and the declining dollar is to think bigger and come up with better plans. As important as financial and business planning is a plan for personal development and self-improvement. I'm often asked to invest in people's business plans, and one of the reasons I turn many of them down is because a big plan requires a big person who's spent time on personal development. In a lot of cases, a business plan is far bigger than the person with the plan - that is, the dream is bigger than the dreamer."
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"Tracking account planning is rather like counting a mixed batch of tropical fish. You think you see patterns, but they've all changed by the time you've finished counting."
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"You're missing it. This is not a one-man show. What's reinvigorating this company is two things: One, there's a lot of really talented people in this company who listened to the world tell them they were losers for a couple of years, and some of them were on the verge of starting to believe it themselves. But they're not losers. What they didn't have was a good set of coaches, a good plan. A good senior management team. But they have that now."
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"In bad times, the rich usually get richer."
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"They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong."
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"We can form no idea of the millions of pounds that are spent every year in the making of dress in the West. The dress-making business has become a regular science. What colour of dress will suit with the complexion of the girl and the colour of her hair, what special feature of her body should be disguised, and what displayed to the best advantage-these and many other like important points, the dressmakers have seriously to consider. Again, the dress that ladies of very high position wear, others have to wear also, otherwise they lose their caste! This is FASHION."
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"Business is business, that is, you must do everything promptly; delay and shuffling won't do."
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"A product for everyone rarely reaches much of anyone."
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"You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience."
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"I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news."
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"You'd better make it your business to understand the market. The ability to charm or play the game is useful."
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