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What's Management up to?" I whispered to Bennett."My guess is a new acronym," he whispered. "Departm...

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In my father's last letter he said that the world is run by those willing to take the responsibility...

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Every telecomm company is as big a corporate welfare bum as you could ask for. Try to imagine what i...

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Cory DoctorowContext: Further Selected Essays on Productivity

Businesses are great structures for managing big projects. It’s like trying to develop the ability t...

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All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing ...

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If you delegate tasks, you create followers, if you delegate authority , you create leaders

I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I ...

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The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a busine...

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If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will ...

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McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physic...

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It seems that there's a part of our psyche that doesn't know the difference between an agreement abo...

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David Allen (author)Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

The consumer is not a moron she is your wife.

I'm always sad to see a relationship not work, but what happens between two people is not my busines...

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Instead of thinking outside the box,Get rid of the box.

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Deepak ChopraThe Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams

I learned a long time ago, if you want to keep your friends in show business, don't get famous. Beca...

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I have the right temperament. I have the right leadership. I've built an incredible company. I went ...

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We don't need new laws that can be used by organizations with deep pockets and the ability to deduct...

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Miss Climpson," said Lord Peter, "is a manifestation of the wasteful way in which this country is ru...

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Rappers aren't the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a p...

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In the '60s and '70s and early '80s, the trainers would grind you, and eventually they would break s...

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I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in t...

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Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathemati...

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Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is ...

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Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be se...

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Sometimes Spiro missed the times when a troublesome worker was thrown out of a high window and that ...

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There is a mistake technical and scientific people make. We think that if we have made a clever and ...

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Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

We have not noticed how fast the rest has risen. Most of the industrialized world--and a good part o...

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Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. So...

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What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties i...

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CHOAM is business and business follows profits.

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled...

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The big print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - le...

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I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.

An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and speci...

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In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that the rest is easy.

But just understand the difference between a man like Reardon and a man like me. He is the old type ...

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The more I am in a position to be tried in faith with reference to my body, my family, my service fo...

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Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

Don't be humble. You're not that great.

A marriage ends up being a business deal: no matter how long or short it is, somebody owes somebody ...

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A lot of young people just starting out unskilled, as all Americans do when they're born here, come ...

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Between the Great Depression and the 1970s, private business was viewed with suspicion even in most ...

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Ha-Joon Chang23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the posses...

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It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice ...

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I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life it...

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...the pleasures of the world are chiefly folly, and the business of it mostly knavery, and both not...

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A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarr...

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The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European trad...

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

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Henry Ward BeecherLife Thoughts Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher

One best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

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Henry Ward BeecherLife Thoughts Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher

Twenty years ago, I wrote a book called 'It Takes a Village.' And a lot of people looked at the titl...

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Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth tell...

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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it...

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[Performance with purpose is] basically PepsiCo saying that companies can no longer perform and toss...

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Living like this is a full-time business.

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking t...

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During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association ...

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I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simp...

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As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I wa...

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Our philosophy is that we want to be an ecosystem. Our philosophy is to empower others to sell, empo...

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I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or ...

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I believe 3D is inevitable because it's about aligning our entertainment systems to our sensory syst...

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I believe 3D is inevitable because it's about aligning our entertainment systems to our sensory syst...

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I believe 3D is inevitable because it's about aligning our entertainment systems to our sensory syst...

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I believe 3D is inevitable because it's about aligning our entertainment systems to our sensory syst...

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Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

The trust institutions have in the marketplace, the confidence customers and suppliers and workers a...

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To me, the conclusion that the public has the ultimate responsibility for the behavior of even the b...

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Jared DiamondCollapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

The greatest challenge to most innovation centers around the world is many nations' punitive attitud...

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Every new startup business creates new opportunities. It doesn't matter whether you have a new app f...

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I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!

Each segment of the worm is directly reproduced as a whole worm, just as each cell of the American C...

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Jean BaudrillardSimulacra and Simulation

If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot...

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The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're alwa...

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I admit my view of the world is colored by my legal and business experiences at Liberty.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It te...

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Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So...

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I've learned from my dealings with Johnny Carson that no matter what kind of friendship you think yo...

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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Whilst I could not think of any man whose spirit was, or needed to be, more enlarged than the spirit...

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The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'Well done'.

The truth is, truly passionate media creators don't get into the media business to make huge gains f...

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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already k...

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John D. RockefellerQuotations by John D. Rockefeller

As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the...

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The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, ro...

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As far as this business of solitary confinement goes, the most important thing for survival is commu...

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It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. Whenyou pay too much, you lose a litt...

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And now they were weary and frightened because they had gone against a system they did not understan...

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Beside them, little pot-bellied men in light suits and panama hats; clean, pink men with puzzled, wo...

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