"Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy."
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"One customer well taken care of could be more valuable than $10,000 worth of advertising."
"Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work."
"Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing."
"You don't build a business --you build people-- and then people build the business."
"Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them."
"You must remain focused on your journey to greatness."
"If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit.Never quit!!!"
"The sleeping fox catches no poultry."
"In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine."
"Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude."
"Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially."
"And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department."
"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."
"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle."
"It's hard to find things that won't sell online."
"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."
"It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price."