"The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services."

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"The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services."

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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."

Karl Marx, German Philosopher

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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."

Eraldo Banovac, Croatian Scientist

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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."

Karl Marx, German Philosopher

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"Consumers care less about your brand's vision statement, they want value delivered."

Bernard Kelvin Clive, Ghanaian Author

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"Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

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"I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin."

John Irving, American Novelist

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"Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request."

Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman

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"We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?"

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"Audience engagement is critical to the survival of your brand, if you don't engage them you endanger your brand. It's social interaction."

Bernard Kelvin Clive, Ghanaian Author

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