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They were learning that New York had another life, too — subterranean, like almost everything that was human in the city — a life of writers meeting in restaurants at lunchtime or in coffee houses after business hours to talk of work just started or magazines unpublished, and even to lay modest plans for the future. Modestly they were beginning to write poems worth the trouble of reading to their friends over coffee cups. Modestly they were rebelling once more. ↗

— Malcolm Cowley

#conversation #future-plans #lost-generation #modest #new-york

No matter what your reason for wanting to start your own business, developing the foundation is the same. Laying a solid foundation for you business will provide you with a road map to follow as you build your business. As you work through the Start a Business Step-by-Step Workbook you will define the company’s mission, decide what business entity is right for your business, name your business, determine the pricing for your products or services, formulate your financial projections, define your competitors, survey consumers regarding your products or services, determine the marketing methods right for your business and more. ↗

— Jeanne A. Estes

#business-plan #business-start-up #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #entrepreneurship-training

Ariel: "...but I have a...a business proportion for you." Jerry: "Okay. What can I do for you? You want the back part of the acreage cleared?" Ariel: "No, nothing like that. Here's the deal. ↗

— Judith-Victoria Douglas

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the whole point of the wish business was to see to it that what the client got was exactly what he asked for and exactly what he didn't really want. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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The silence of a convent at night is the silence of the grave. Too far removed from the busy world without for external sounds to penetrate the thick walls, whilst within no slamming door, nor wandering foot, nor sacrilegious voice breaks in upon the stillness, the slightest noise strikes upon the ear with a fearful distinctness. ("The Monk's Story") ↗

— Catherine Crowe

#creepy #silence #business

Think continally about what you want, not about the things you fear. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#inspirational #leadership #success #business

In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899) ↗

— Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

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When you've been around as long as I have you come to know a thing about business. Every problem as a solution and vice versa ↗

— Mr. Large

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Morwen lifted a corner of the mouth. «Save your breath, Bagrund. I'm not back. We need to talk to Raich.» «The King is currently busy. Go back where you came.» Bagrund's gaze was sharp as a blade. «He will bother for me.» ↗

— Chiara Cilli

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The sooner we associate long hours and multitasking with incompetence and carelessness the better. The next time you hear boasts of executives pulling an all-nighter or holding conference calls in their cars, be sure to offer your condolences; it's grim being stuck in sweatshops run by managers too ignorant to understand productivity and risk. Working people like this is as smart as running your factory without maintenance. In manufacturing and engineering businesses, everyone learns that the top priority is asset integrity: protecting the machinery on which the business depends. In knowledge-based economies, that machinery is the mind. ↗

— Margaret Heffernan

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