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"It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference."
"Christmas is over and Business is Business."
"A sex-symbol becomes a thing, I just hate being a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something I'd rather have it sex than some other things we've got symbols of."
"Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business."
"Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I say, a militarism without the military virtues."
"Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business."
"Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults."
"Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties."
"The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure."
"Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him."
"In the Ford Motor Company, we emphasize service equally with sales."
"What I’ve learned in these 11 years is you just got to stay focused and believe in yourself and trust your own ability and judgment."
"I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always."
"I create offbeat advice; I don't follow it. I rarely take third-party advice on my investments."
"The NBA is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal."
"The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie."
"There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here."
"Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business."
"Businesses are successful because someone makes the sacrifices other are unwilling to."
"The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises, it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them."
