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An entrepreneur without funding is a musician without an instrument. ↗

— Robert A. Rice Jr.

#entrepreneur #funding #instrument #musician #startup

One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#company #idea #needs #time #business

Swearing relieves the feelings - that is what swearing does. I explained this to my aunt on one occasion, but it didn't answer with her. She said I had no business to have such feelings. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#swearing #business

There are no nonsmokers in this business. Just people trying to quit, and people who haven’t started yet. ↗

— P.J. Tracy

#dead-run #p-j-tracy #business

Then at once they reached and hovered upon the imminent verge of sleep - but an intruder came, now, that would not "down". It was conscience. They began to feel a vague fear that they had been doing wrong to run away; and next they thought of the stolen meat, and then the real torture came [...] So they inwardly resolved that so long as they remained in the business, their piracies should not again be sullied with the crime of stealing. Then conscience granted a truce, and these curiously inconsistent pirates fell peacefully to sleep. ↗

— Mark Twain

#childhood #conscience #human-nature #humanity #sleep

Some PR is about getting information about a great product or thingy out to the people who would enjoy it, while other PR is about creating a web of lies that conceals the fact that your company harnesses the energy produced by rape and uses it to make a chemical that kills forests for fun. Either way, you're going to need it. ↗

— Eugene Mirman

#humor #business

A pickpocket is obviously a champion of private enterprise. But it would perhaps be an exaggeration to say that a pickpocket is a champion of private property. The point about Capitalism and Commercialism, as conducted of late, is that they have really preached the extension of business rather than the preservation of belongings; and have at best tried to disguise the pickpocket with some of the virtues of the pirate. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#capitalism #commerce #goods #property #theft

Delegating your accountabilities is abdication ↗

— Michael E. Gerber

#management #business

The most efficient route that nature has found from point A to point B is rarely a straight line. It is always the path of least resistance. ↗

— Marcus Buckingham Curt Coffman

#leadership #life #business

You can't do traditional work at a modern pace. Traditional work has traditional rhythms. You need calm. You can be busy, but you must remain calm. ↗

— Bill Buford

#calm #modern #pace #traditional-work #business