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"By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway."
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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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"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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"Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail."
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"For official record, if become bankrupt old retail distribution centers-labeled supermega, so-enlarged foodstuff market- later reincarnate to become worship shrine. First sell food-stuff, next then same structure sell battered furnitures, next now born as gymnasium club, next broker flea markets, only at final end of life...sell religions."
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"Agile does not mean laissez-faire, flexibility and freedom are based on the well-defined principles."
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"Redundancy is my favourite business strategy."
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"In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination."
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"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves."
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"I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician."
Jazz
"If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count."
Family
"There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians."
Help
"They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously."
Education
"You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work."
Work
"By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway."
Business
"One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing."
Classroom
"Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song."
Country
"I'm a very, very stubborn man."
Man
"Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz."
Jazz
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