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"A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties."
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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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"I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention."
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"Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail."
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"Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time."
Creativity

"While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser."
Wisdom

"The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money."
Writing

"The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production."
Business

"The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together."
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"The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it."
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"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour."
Politics

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."
Spiritual

"Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex."
Society

"The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion."
Freedom
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