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- No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist.
- J. Paul Getty (1892 - 1976)
- Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.
- George F. Burns
- The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.
- Robert P. Vanderpoel
- Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
- B. C. Forbes
- The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.
- Roy L. Smith
- A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Jr.
- Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
- Paul Valéry (1871 - 1945)
- For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
- Fr. Alfred D'Souza
- Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.
- Stewart B. Johnson
- The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes...
- Dave Barry (1947 - ), "Sweating Out Taxes"
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