"This company doesn't pay anybody. Only customers can do that. The company merely handles the money."
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"The truth frequently seems unreasonable; the truth frequently is depressing; the truth sometimes seems to be evil, but it has the eternal advantage, it is the truth and what is built thereon neither brings nor yields to confusion."
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"We have never considered any costs as fixed. Therefore we first reduce the price to a point where we believe more sales will result. Then we go ahead and try to make the price. We do not bother about the costs. The new price forces the cost down."
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"The people must be helped to think naturally about money. They must be told what it is, and what makes it money, and what are the possible tricks of the present system which put nations and peoples under control of the few."
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"If I lose a billion dollars, I will have it back in less than five years."
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"Money doesn't make us anyway it just unmasks us."
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"Failure is the chance to do it better next time."
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"Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself"
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"Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race."
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"We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way."
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"If someone betrays you once, it is his fault. If he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, they will never cease to be amused. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals."
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"Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black."
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"The true measure of a successful leader is their ability to discover the hidden talent in those they lead and challenge them to achieve greatness. If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you are right."
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"Whatever you have, you must either use or lose."
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"Every experience is worth having."
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"Progress is not made by pulling off a series of stunts. Each step has to be regulated. A man cannot expect to progress without thinking."
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"Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol."
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"People are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that is why the people at large keep their freedom. People can be manipulated only when they are organized."
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"We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save."
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"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done."
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