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" There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men. "

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" My parents worked harder than anyone I have ever met. They had so many businesses. There was the motel, but throughout my childhood, they also had a drive-through dairy, a gas station, a clothing store, a computer reselling business. "

" The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it.' "

" Whenever you're sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear. That's the way I always operated in business. "

Joseph P. Kennedy

" We're all working together; that's the secret. "

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" One of the risks for anybody in the lending business is that being conservative can harm your competitiveness. "

" Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him. "

Henry David Thoreau

" Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren't proud of what you're doing, why should anybody else be? "

Richard Branson

" Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager. "

" Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

" The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better. "

" I believe 3D is inevitable because it's about aligning our entertainment systems to our sensory system. We all have two eyes; we all see the world in 3D. And it's natural for us to want our entertainment in 3D as well. It's just getting the technology - it's really more the business model than the technology piece. We've solved the technology. "

" In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. "

Harold S. Geneen

" Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time. "

" Investment banking is not a business; it is a personal service where bankers work hand in hand with their clients. And it is a service that must not simply be about making bigger and bigger deals that reap rewards for only a small group of executives. "

" I am passionate about what design can do - how far it can support the new ideas and the new ways of living of this 21st Century. Good design accelerates this exciting future where manufacturing is local, materials and processes are cradle to cradle, business models are both socially and financially driven. "

" Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little. "

" Hospitality is central to the restaurant business, yet it's a hard idea to define precisely. Mostly, it involves being nice to people and making them feel welcome. You notice it when it's there, and you particularly notice it when it isn't. A single significant lapse in this area can be your dominant impression of an entire meal. "

John Lanchester

" We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the practice of free-market capitalism. It will provide business and public policy with a powerful new tool for economic development, profitability, and the promotion of the public good. "

" It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition. "

" It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain. "

" I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did. "

" The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life. "

" Trade is very good for the country. It's very good for the GDP. It's good for wages, but it doesn't mean it's always good for every business. So we should have trade assistance, which is about relocation, re-education, and training. "

" Good design is good business. "

" I come from the restaurant business; you're talking to a guy used to working 12, 14 hours a day. "

Bobby Schilling

" If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life. "

" Word of mouth is the best medium of all. "

William Bernbach

" I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate. "

" Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. "