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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
Think pink, but don't wear it.
Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler. What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which is to say persons without consciences, without senses of pity or shame, have taken all the money in the treasuries of our government and corporations, and made it all their own?
Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks which will have to be nationalized and State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.
I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.
A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.
I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.
A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.
There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery
The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.
Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
Buy less, choose well & do it yourself!
Sometimes it's easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don't have the idea.
No free energy device will ever be allowed to reach the market.
Its all about taste.If you are cheap, nothing helps
I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.
Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries.
The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or, what is most important of all, the banker of the backer.
I'm like Robin Hood. I rob the rich to make these projects come alive... not really rob. It's done with a smile.
I've never lived in a building without my name on it.
In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.
Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
It's important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial instincts and changing to accommodate the times.
I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill.
If the shoe fits, buy it.
Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.
History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.
People underestimate me, and that's fine. I prefer to go into negotiations being underestimated.
We are free today substantially, but the day will come when our Republic will be an impossibility. It will be an impossibility because wealth will be concentrated in the hands of a few. A Republic cannot stand upon bayonets, and when the day comes when the wealth of the nation will be in the hands of a few, then we must rely upon the wisdom of the best elements in the country to readjust the laws of the nations to the changed conditions.
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
You learn when you listen. You earn when you listen - not just money, but respect.
American economy is tricky. If you stay in the game you're in a good position for the upswing. If you're not in the game you can't win.
You know, you don't have to have money to be a successful businessperson. You don't need a college degree. You just need a lot of common sense backed up by a willingness to work hard.
If you don't look ahead, you'll always be behind.
Anyone too busy to say thank you will get fewer and fewer chances to say it.
The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.
Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan.
The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different.
I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.
Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job they were hired to do with a reasonable amount of competence and efficiency, you will support them.
Life is series of opportunities. The often neglected fact of life is that opportunities multiply as you take advantage of them.
No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.