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“He without benefit of scruples - His fun and money soon quadruples.”

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Author:Ogden Nash

“The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“Businessmen are notable for a peculiarly stalwart character, which enables them to enjoy without loss of self-reliance the benefits of tariffs, franchises, and even outright government subsidies.”

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Book:the Uses of the Past

Source: the Uses of the Past

“I don't want our success to be measured only by financial yardsticks, or by our distribution or number of shops. What I want to be celebrated for - and it's going to be tough in a business environment - is how good we are to our employees and how we benefit our community. It's a different bottom line.”

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Author:Anita Roddick

“Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.”

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Book:Think and Grow Rich: Collector's Edition

Source: Think and Grow Rich: Collector's Edition

“Real benefits come when managers begin to understand the profound difference between 'cost cutting' and 'eliminating the causes of costs'”

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Author:Brian L. Joiner

“It's important not to overstate the benefits of ideas. Quite frankly, I know it's kind of a romantic notion that you're just going to have this one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great. But the fact is that coming up with an idea is the least important part of creating something great. It has to be the right idea and have good taste, but the execution and delivery are what's key.”

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Author:Sergey Brin

“Marketers... Can't simply put a more environmentally friendly package on the shelves and assume that shoppers will recognize and appreciate the change. If the goal is to drive preference or justify a price premium, the environmental benefit needs to be conveyed.”

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Author:Scott Young

“We are an industry that has historically been at the forefront of defining new media environments in ways that benefit consumers and move our entire business model forward. We must ensure that while we are moving quickly, we are also moving smartly.”

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Author:Jim Stengel

“We tell market researchers that we don't mind paying more for green benefits but only a minority of zealots ever really will. A campaign that delivers more widespread green behaviour is going to need to be cleverer that that.”

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Author:Chris Powell

“Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.”

“...perhaps the most distinguishing trait of visionary leaders is that they believe in a goal that benefits not only themselves, but others as well. It is such vision that attracts the psychic energy of other people, and makes them willing to work beyond the call of duty for the organization.”

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Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi