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William Shakespeare: Be not afraid...

William Shakespeare: Be not afraid...

Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon...

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Milton Friedman: Hell hath no...

Milton Friedman: Hell hath no...

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Paula Nelson: Women's battle for...

Paula Nelson: Women's battle for...

Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to...

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Walter Bagehot: What impresses men...

Walter Bagehot: What impresses men...

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

Source: The English...

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Walter Bagehot: But of all...

Walter Bagehot: But of all...

But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure...

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Walter Bagehot: In early times...

Walter Bagehot: In early times...

In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it...

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Joseph A Schumpeter: Economic progress, in...

Joseph A Schumpeter: Economic progress, in...

Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.

Source: Capitalism,...

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J P Morgan: Beckoning a waiter...

J P Morgan: Beckoning a waiter...

Beckoning a waiter J. P. Morgan once ordered a beer while saying, 'When Morgan drinks, everybody drinks.' Everybody...

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Joseph P Kennedy: Only a fool...

Joseph P Kennedy: Only a fool...

Only a fool holds out for the top dollar.

Source: In The Executives Quotation Book,...

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Andrew Mellon: Here's a dime....

Andrew Mellon: Here's a dime....

Here's a dime. Call up both of them! [Mellon's response when Herbert Hoover asked for a nickel to call up a...

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Andrew Carnegie: Immense power is...

Andrew Carnegie: Immense power is...

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control...

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Polly Adler: It's not the...

Polly Adler: It's not the...

It's not the college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to...

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W Edwards Deming: Learning is not...

W Edwards Deming: Learning is not...

Learning is not compulsory, but neither is survival.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Applause is a...

Applause is a...

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

Source: On why he did not respond to applause...

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I'm not really...

I'm not really...

I'm not really doing anything different this time around but I am really growing up, as a person and that just all...

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Christopher Fry: In my plays...

Christopher Fry: In my plays...

In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into it...

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Christopher Fry: Comedy is an...

Christopher Fry: Comedy is an...

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

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Rudolf Bing: The opera always...

Rudolf Bing: The opera always...

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.

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Howard Hughes: I wanted to...

Howard Hughes: I wanted to...

I wanted to see New York . . . so I tried to see how fast I could do it in.

Source:...

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Marshall Field: Give the lady...

Marshall Field: Give the lady...

Give the lady what she wants!

Source: Instructions to one of his store...

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