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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.
Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.
Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.
He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer read more
The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer classes have adopted a certain way of living, producers have an incentive to improve the methods of manufacture so that soon it is possible for the poorer classes to follow suit. Thus luxury furthers progress. Innovation "is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. The luxury today is the necessity of tomorrow." Luxury is the roadmaker of progress: it develops latent needs and makes people discontented. In so far as they think consistently, moralists who condemn luxury must recommend the comparatively desireless existence of the wild life roaming in the woods as the ultimate ideal of civilized life.
About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and read more
Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.
Budgets are for cutting, that's why you set them.
Budgets are for cutting, that's why you set them.
And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus.
And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus.
