"Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind."

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"Consumers care less about your brand's vision statement, they want value delivered."

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"I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin."

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"We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?"

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"A true businessperson should also be a true humanist who understands that he stands to gain the most in a world that is stable for those he deals with, even if they do not fare as well as he does."

Janvier Chouteu-Chando, Cameroonian Author

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"Everyone loves the idea of "disruption" in business, but no one likes it when it happens to them."

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"Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"The investments you make into a brand, makes its name worth it."

Bernard Kelvin Clive, Ghanaian Author

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"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"The power of the brand is not in the name but what has been invested in that name over the years."

Bernard Kelvin Clive, Ghanaian Author

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"I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater than the rent which he now pays annually. If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself; and my shortcomings and inconsistencies do not affect the truth of my statement."

Simplicity

"There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony."

Health

"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

Environment

"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."

Innovation

"How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins."

Friendship

"The savage in man is never quite eradicated."

Identity

"I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while."

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"Consumers care less about your brand's vision statement, they want value delivered."

"I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin."

"We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?"

"A true businessperson should also be a true humanist who understands that he stands to gain the most in a world that is stable for those he deals with, even if they do not fare as well as he does."

"Everyone loves the idea of "disruption" in business, but no one likes it when it happens to them."

"Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility."

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"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."

"The power of the brand is not in the name but what has been invested in that name over the years."

"Make your brand memorable or risk fading out!"

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"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

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"How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins."

"The savage in man is never quite eradicated."

"I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while."