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Business is a game, the greatest game in the world if you know how to play it.
Business is a game, the greatest game in the world if you know how to play it.
There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.
There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.
A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant read more
A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.).
Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city,
whose merchants were princes, whose traffickers are the
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Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city,
whose merchants were princes, whose traffickers are the
honourable of the earth?
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly read more
The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who read more
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch
Is offering too little and asking too much.
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In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch
Is offering too little and asking too much.
The French are with equal advantage content--
So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20 per cent.
