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“You'd better make it your business to understand the market. The ability to charm or play the game is useful.”

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Author:Iain Sinclair

“Borrowing money on what's called 'easy terms,' is a one-way ticket to the Poor House. If you think it ain't a Sucker Game, why is your Banker the richest man in your Town? Why is your Bank the biggest and finest building in your Town? Instead of passing Bills to make borrowing easy, if Congress had passed a Bill that no Person could borrow a cent of Money from any other person, they would have gone down in History as committing the greatest bit of Legislation in the World.”

“Until I came to IBM, I probably would have told you that culture was just one among several important elements in any organization's makeup and success - along with vision, strategy, marketing, financials, and the like... I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.”

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Author:Lou Gerstner

“Let's face it: Most companies in most industries have a kind of tunnel vision. They chase the same opportunities that everyone else is chasing, they miss the same opportunities that everyone else is missing. It's the companies that see a different game that win big. The most important question for innovators today is: What do you see that the competition doesn't see?”

“If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.”

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Author:Thomas Watson, Jr.

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”

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Book:I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence

Source: I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence

“Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.”

“No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.”

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Author:Jim Valvano

“Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it." -”

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Author:Seth Godin

“Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.”

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Book:Master of the Game; If Tomorrow Comes

Source: Master of the Game; If Tomorrow Comes

“Business is more exciting than any game.”

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Author:Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

“Don't play games that you don't understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.”

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Book:Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

Source: Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.”

Source: The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career

“Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumours so little founded on truth”

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Author:James de la Vega

“There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.”

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Book:Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

Source: Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

“You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.”

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Author:Warren Buffett