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“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

“"Patents make our product defensible." The optimal number of times to use the P word in a presentation is one. Just once, say, "We have filed patents for what we are doing." Done. The second time you say it, venture capitalists begin to suspect that you are depending too much on patents for defensibility. The third time you say it, you are holding a sign above your head that says, "I am clueless."”

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Book:Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition

Source: Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition

“One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.”

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Author:Carroll O'Connor

“Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.”

“Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Adam Smith (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Adam Smith (Illustrated)

“Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.”

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Author:Jack Dorsey

“We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.”

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Author:Pierre Omidyar

“Overnight the digital age had changed the course of history for our company. Everything that we thought was in our control no longer was. But within a year we had invested in social media and digital experts. Now Starbucks is the number one brand on Facebook.”

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Author:Howard Schultz

“The number of clicks on display ads is not an accurate predictor of the effectiveness of online display ads.”

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Author:Gian Fulgoni

“A campaign, like a brand, is not just a number of bits put together - a claim here, a pack shot there, a reason why somewhere else. If we try to produce it by the atomistic approach, we will end up with a sort of Identikit brand. It will be a perfect description of the structure of the brand, as the Identikit can describe the contours of the face. But it won't be the same thing. The brand will never come to life.”

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Author:Stephen King