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"All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage."
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"The ultimate profit of all businesses should be happiness."
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"16th century advertisements cannot market 21st century products. Look for what is necessary at the present moment."
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"If you have ever experienced this type of unprofessional treatment, I doubt you would even consider giving them business in the future. Interrupting, ignoring, patronizing, or antagonizing a customer is like pouring gas on a fire and creates a more explosive situation than the original complaint. Still, it continues to happen every day, costing companies millions in lost revenue."
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"But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses."
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"My grandfather had a paint store. It's what put my mom through college. Small business is part of my family history."
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"All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business."
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"When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing."
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"It's really impossible to project ahead even six months in this business."
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"Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail."
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"For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising."
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"The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods."
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"Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister."
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"In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing."
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"The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature."
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"It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community."
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"The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before."
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"Invention is the mother of necessity."
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"In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes."
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"The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery."
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