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"The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men."
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"Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car."
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"It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket."
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"We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass."
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"The idea of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, to really make a difference."
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"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."
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"The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'"
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"Regarding quality, the following rule is very important: do each activity right at the first time with the aim of saving money and time. Regardless of the process under consideration, the activities that were carried out badly may cause repetitions with considerable additional costs."
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"My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations."
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"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."
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"Consumers care less about your brand's vision statement, they want value delivered."
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"The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men."
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"It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments."
Art


"Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen."
Age


"I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write."
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"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
Man


"But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer."
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"I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts."
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"Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe."
People


"I became a writer in spite of my environments."
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"I have not been a success, and probably never will be."
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