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The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a read more
The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in the grabbing off of scarce nature-given supplies, as it is in the animal kingdom. Rather, it is a competition in the positive creation of new and additional wealth.
The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what read more
The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he knows.
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
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.".
Budgets are for cutting, that's why you set them.
Budgets are for cutting, that's why you set them.
Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I read more
Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, read more
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
