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Quote by Andrew Mellon

“If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world.”

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Andrew Mellon was the former United States Secretary of the Treasury, born on March 24, 1855, and died on August 26, 1937. He had a profound impact on the financial and business sectors, serving as the chairman of several companies. more

“Getting fired can produce a particularly bountiful payday for a CEO. Indeed, he can 'earn' more in that single day, while cleaning out his desk, than an American worker earns in a lifetime of cleaning toilets. Forget the old maxim about nothing succeeding like success: Today, in the executive suite, the all-too-prevalent rule is that nothing succeeds like failure.”

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Book:Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

“The typical large company has a compensation committee, They don't look for Dobermans on that committee, they look for chihuahuas.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“My feeling would be that you lose something of the beauty of the Premiership by joining something not defined at the moment.”

Moments Feelings Would Be Loses Defined Joining

Author:Roman Abramovich

“Our strategy [at Chelsea] is to bring up our own players through the academy, which we have invested a lot in, and hope it gives results”

Giving Results Player Strategy Academy Chelsea

Author:Roman Abramovich

“We will be spending less in the transfer market in future years.”

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Author:Roman Abramovich

“Aim High, Drive hard.”

Hard Ambition Aim Aim High

Author:Donald Trump

“The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty.”

Matter Beauty Subjective

Author:Lawrence Durrell

“No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village like an instinct left to rust, Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot.”

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Book:Collected Poems 1931-74

Source: Collected Poems 1931-74

Quote by Andrew Mellon

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