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"For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again."
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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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"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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"Resources are hired to give results, not reasons."
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"Treat your clients with high professionalism and they will no more negotiate with you."
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"Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it."
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"I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks."
History


"I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants."
Poetry


"I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early."
Art


"When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had."
Literature


"Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around."
Technology


"Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice."
Time


"A chronicle is very different from history proper."
History


"When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all."
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"History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without."
History
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