"Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact."
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"The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private property: in other words, the expropriation of the labourer."
"When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical ability in the world, but you still have to know the fundamentals."
"The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist."
"Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word."
"I think it is undeniably true that the human brain must work in models. The trick is to have your brain work better than the other person's brain because it understands the most fundamental models- ones that will do most work per unit."
"Know your numbers' is a fundamental precept of business."
"The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing."
"Action is the fundamental key to success."
"You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness."
"It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good."
"The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. It is the source of all true art and science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle."
"Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace."
"Fundamental rights belong to the human being just because you are a human being."
"The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed - socialism doesn't work."
"So far as we know, all the fundamental laws of physics, like Newton's equations, are reversible."
"All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take."
"The tradition of always looking for the answer in the most fundamental way available - that is a great tradition, and it saves a lot of time in this world."
"What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant."
"Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing."