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• "Far too many executives have become more concerned with the "four P's" -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders."
  By: T. Boone Pickens
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• "Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most who serves best" and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying."
  By: B. F. Harris
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• "Above all, we wish to avoid having a dissatisfied customer. We consider our customers a part of our organization, and we want them to feel free to make any criticism they see fit in regard to our merchandise or service. Sell practical, tested merchandise at reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings -- and they will always come back."
  By: L.L. Bean
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• "They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls."
  By: Lord Edward Coke, Reports (vol. V, Case of Sutton's Hospital)
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• "The old proverb about having too many irons in the fire is an abominable old lie. Have all in, shovel, tongs, and poker."
  By: Adam Clarke
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• "You foolish man, you don't even know your own foolish business."
  By: 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Memories of the Courts of the Stuarts--Nassau and Hanover, to John Anstis, the Garter King of Arms as attributed by Jesse
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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."
  By: George Canning, in a dispatch to Sir Charles Bagot
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• "The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart."
  By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese (XIX)
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• "Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war."
  By: Christian Nestell Bovee
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• "Measure not dispatch by the time of sitting, but by the advancement of business."
  By: Francis Bacon
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• "The world is God's workshop; the raw materials are His; the ideals and patterns are His; our hands are "the members of Christ," our reward His recognition. Blacksmith or banker, draughtsman or doctor, painter or preacher, servant or statesman, must work as unto the Lord, not merely making a living, but devoting a life. This makes life sacramental, turning its water into wine. This is twice blessed, blessing both the worker and the work."
  By: Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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• "To manage a business successfully requires as much courage as that possessed by the soldier who goes to war. Business courage is much more natural because all the benefits which the public has in material wealth come from it."
  By: Charles F. Abbott
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• "Mr. Howel Walsh, in a corporation case tried at the Tralee assizes, observed that a corporation cannot blush. It was a body, it was true; had certainly a head--a new one very year--an annual acquisition of intelligence in every new lord mayor. Arms he supposed it had, and very long ones too, for it could reach at anything. Legs, of course, when it made such long strides. A throat to swallow the rights of the community, and a stomach to digest them. But who ever yet discovered, in the anatomy of any corporation, either bowels or a heart?"
  By: William Hone, Table-Book
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• "The potter is at enmity with the potter."
  By: Hesiod, Works and Days
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• "Pleasing ware is halfe sould. [Pleasing ware is half sold.]"
  By: George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum
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