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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.
Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.
Sell cheap and tell the truth.
Sell cheap and tell the truth.
You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.
You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.
I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.
I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.
It's not the bulls and bears you need to avoid -- it's the bum steers.
It's not the bulls and bears you need to avoid -- it's the bum steers.
The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for read more
The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in the general population. On the contrary, the increasingly complex processes tend to lead to increasingly simple and easily understood products. The genius of mass production is precisely in its making more products more accessible, both economically and intellectually to more people.
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded- here and there, read more
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded- here and there, now and then- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.This is known as "bad luck.".
We are now in the third stage of the industrial revolution. The first involved machines which extended human muscle; the read more
We are now in the third stage of the industrial revolution. The first involved machines which extended human muscle; the second used machines to extend the human nervous system (radio, television, telephones); the third is now utilizing machines which extend the human mind-computers. About half of all service workers (43 percent of the labor force by 2000) will be involved in collecting, analyzing, synthesizing, structuring, storing, or retrieving information... By 1995, 80 percent of all management will be "knowledge workers.".
Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell read more
Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.