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There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.
The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.
We are going to continue having these meetings, everyday, until I find out why no work is getting done.
Every child should be placed on a doorstep to sell something. It's the best possible training for life.
The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.
Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.
The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action
The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.
We win more business, not because of pitching but because clients say, 'We like the work you're doing.'
A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.
The most important word in the world of money is cash flow. The second most important word is leverage.
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially.
Your needs will be met once you can find a way of projecting energy and fulfilling someone else's need.
A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.
I have acquired a deep and abiding respect for all those engaged in the difficult business of commerce.
Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.
If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.
Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.
The first law of economics is that when the price goes up, consumption comes down. This is a divine law.
One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act.
I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.
I think that maybe in every company today there is always at least one person who is going crazy slowly.
Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them.
The plain truth is that the only consistent theme in advertising is the absence of any consistent theme.
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.
One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.
Don't play games that you don't understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.
One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few.
Genuine art and business are the ultimate partnership toward catalyzing social evolution and well-being.
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.
You never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose, nor a body to kick.
The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory.
It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes, and then buying an insurance policy on those cars.
You've got to take risks if you're going to succeed. I would much rather ask forgiveness than permission.
When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing.
Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.
We few. We happy few. We band of brothers, for he today That sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother.
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
In financing growing companies, we always looked for human value that didn't appear on the balance sheet.
Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.
I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.