"Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith."

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"Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car."

Elon Musk, American Entrepreneur

Business, Electric Cars, Marketing, Consumer Behavior

"It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket."

Elon Musk, American Entrepreneur

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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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"The idea of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, to really make a difference."

Elon Musk, American Entrepreneur

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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."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'"

Orison Swett Marden, American Writer

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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

Business, Quality, Money, Time, Process

"My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations."

Thomas Huxley, English Scientist

Business, Aspirations, Fact, Facts

"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

Business, Science, Labor, Production, Value

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

Bernard Kelvin Clive, Ghanaian Author

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"We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself."

Life

"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made."

Time

"That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers."

Books

"What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions."

Fact

"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."

People

"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent."

Media

"A good deed never goes unpunished."

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"Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car."

"It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket."

"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."

"The idea of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, to really make a difference."

"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."

"The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'"

"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."

"My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations."

"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."

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

Explore more quotes by Gore Vidal

"We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself."

"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made."

"That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers."

"What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions."

"Write something, even if it's just a suicide note."

"It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail."

"Never have children, only grandchildren."

"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."

"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent."

"A good deed never goes unpunished."