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There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them... Decent people lost their jobs.... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#business

Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#expertise #nonchalance #business

The goal of management is to remove obstacles. ↗

— Paul Orfalea

#management #business

I didn't have the time to slice a hundred shallow cuts into his lips and make him suck limes. I was too busy to make him swallow oiled musket balls. I had more important things to think about now and a lot to do. -Saffron in Dust of 100 Dogs ↗

— A.S. King

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People have come to the erroneous conclusion that if they’re not willing to start something separate, world-changing, and risky, they have no business starting anything. Somehow, we’ve fooled ourselves into believing that the project has to have a name, a building, and a stock ticker symbol to matter. ↗

— Seth Godin

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Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

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Many companies expect loyal customers without providing loyal service. This has been the visionary failure of countless corporations. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#companies #corporations #customers #loyal #service

Sex, like business, is better with multiple partners. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#business #sex #business

Bagi saya, apapun pekerjaannya, jadilah yang terbaik. Kalau jadi Pengusaha jadilah Pengusaha yang terbaik. Kalau jadi PNS jadilah PNS yang terbaik. ↗

— Helmy Yahya

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In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish.The few who might want to learn will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway the teachers--or should I say, nurses?--will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturable conceit and incurable ignorance among men. The little vermin themselves will do it for us. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#humor #business