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Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term. ↗

— J. Irwin Miller

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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

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In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good. ↗

— Bernard Law Montgomery

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The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property. ↗

— John Moody

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Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York. ↗

— Wesley Morris

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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed. ↗

— William Temple

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Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense. ↗

— Don Nickles

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