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"The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business."
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Personal Development
"In the business always talk to decision makers only, it will save your time and will get you the deal."
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Personal Development
"Business is the salt of life."
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Personal Development
"Marketing is safe. Sales is risky. UNLESS, marketing has done its job. Then sales is safe too."
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Personal Development
"The nonessential employees, the type of workers whom remain at home when it snows, are the quickest to complain about how the talented persons of an organization behave."
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"The competition is out to get you. Are you a moving target or a sitting duck? Innovate or die."
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Personal Development
"One of the biggest secrets of success is delegation. Exactly the method Sir Richard Branson uses! If it helped him become a billionaire businessman then it is worth utilizing in your own life/business, etc."
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Personal Development
"A fair price for oil is whatever you can get plus ten to twenty per cent."
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"The most successful businesses have leaders that see the correlation between customer service and sales. not as separate departments, but as complimentary components for growth."
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Personal Development
"No secrecy, no business."
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"There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation."
Editing
"While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song."
Poetry
"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."
Prose
"The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer."
Sophists
"I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out."
Shaggy
"There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be."
Society
"I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions."
Theory
"When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval."
Family
"The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember."
Poet
"For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting."
Music
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