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" When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked. "

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" A well-maintained physique is a great business card. Ideas and intelligence are what matters, but if you have a well-maintained physique, it's better. "

" I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. "

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" To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them. "

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" Caste is about dividing people up in ways that preclude every form of solidarity, because even in the lowest castes, there are divisions and sub-castes, and everyone's co-opted into the business of this hierarchical, silo-ised society. "

" Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. "

" You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics. "

" Too often, the music business allowed third-party companies to innovate for us - and that simply does not work anymore. "

" Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can't get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy. "

" The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. "

" You can have a wrestling idea, but you need to have these momentum-shifting moves. We had the Hulkamania movement, then it shifted to the beer-drinking, Stone Cold era, we reinvented the business with growing the black beard and becoming the bad guy, what's that next level. "

" Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. "

" As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth. "

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" No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit. "

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" A bankruptcy judge can fix your balance sheet, but he cannot fix your company. "

" What is learned on the athletic field is not forgotten, nor are the lessons of character that are forged there ever lost. Consider the contributions in the field of public life, business, law, medicine, and the military of those who actively participated in athletics. "

" When you feel like this isn't your business, get out of the business. "

" The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. "

" 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. "

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" We polled Tesla owners, do you want autopilot disabled or not. Not one person wanted it disabled. That's pretty telling. "

" There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success. "

" My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. "

" Starting your own business isn't just a job - it's a way of life. "

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