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    In a trader-dominated society, the scribe is usually kept out of the management of affairs, but it given a more or less free hand in the cultural field. By frustrating the scribe's craving for commanding action, the trader draws upon himself the scribe's wrath and scorn.

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Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow read more

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The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find read more

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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

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When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes read more

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