The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?
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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
Only the little people pay taxes.
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The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.
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Value is not intrinsic; it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment.
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in his farewell address.
Most people...find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.
Most people...find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.
Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4].
Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4].
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If we devote our time disparaging the products of our business rivals, we hurt business generally, reduce confidence, and increase discontent.
