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"16th century advertisements cannot market 21st century products. Look for what is necessary at the present moment."

"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."

"My grandfather had a paint store. It's what put my mom through college. Small business is part of my family history."

"Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail."

"Resources are hired to give results, not reasons."

"Good intentions are the best business."
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"If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed."

"People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true."

"I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth."

"Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint."

"Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?"

"Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence."
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