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"Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn."

"It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked."

"I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge."

"Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it."

"The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print."

"I suppose I will go on selling newspapers until at last will come the late night final."
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"Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers."

"Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient."

"An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain."

"A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect."

"Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves."

"Wherefore when a man giveth out his money upon condition that be may not demand it back until a certain time to come, he certainly may take a compensation for this inconvenience which he admits against himself."

"I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration."

"That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World."
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