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"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."
Henry Ford

" If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. "
Albert Einstein

"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."
John D. Rockefeller

"But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action is obvious, and, two, that a great sense of freedom comes with the decision."
Steven Brust

"Originality is the art of concealing your source."
Franklin P. Jones

"Seventy percent of success in life is showing up."
Woody Allen

"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art."
Susan Sontag

"The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it."
Hans-Georg Gadamer, German Philosopher

"Every great inspiration is but an experiment."
Charles Ives, Composer

"Editors, for the most part, don't care ''what'' you've done, or how astounding the physical event may have been. You need to write well. Many others are capable of doing what you have done (probably), so you must write better than they..."
Tim Cahill, Travel Writer

"And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow."
Gilbert K. Chesterton

"We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better."
Jeff Bezos

"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."
Henry Miller

"Leadership is like the Abominable Snowman. You never see it, but you know by the footprints that it's there."
Ann Richards - Former Governor, Texas

"I didn't get into design to be an artist. To me, an artist creates things to evoke emotion. Being a designer goes a step further than that, not only trying to evoke emotion but trying to make a reaction. It is very objective-driven, and that's what makes it interesting."
Mike Davidson

"It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure."
George H. Lewes

"Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." Creative viewing."
William S. Burroughs

"The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered."
Joey Skaggs

"We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand."
Eric Hoffer

"He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other."
Francis Bacon

"I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labour could become its own employer."
Leland Stanford

"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
George S. Patton

"The human body has two ears and one mouth. To be good at persuading or selling, you must learn to use those natural devices in proportion. Listen twice as much as you talk and you'll succeed in persuading others nearly every time."
Tom Hopkins

"There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster."
Jerry Della Famina

"It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper."
Errol Flynn

"Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble."
John Madden

"The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character."
Albert Schweitzer

"All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination. Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth."
Napoleon Hill

"Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory."
Arthur Ashe

"A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day."
Jim Bishop

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