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“I do not dislike but I certainly have no especial respect or admiration for and no trust in, the typical big moneyed men of my country. I do not regard them as furnishing sound opinion as respects either foreign or domestic business.”

Men Country Bigs Sound Business Opinion Regard Admiration Dislike Typical No Trust

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“There is too great a tendency (perhaps encouraged by popular journalism) to deal with the dramatic moments, forgetting that these are not always the most significant moments. ... To find the significant rather than the dramatic features of industrial controversy, of a disagreement in regard to policy on board of directors or between managers, is essential to integrative business policies.”

Source: Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s

“The business society is interested in training its citizens to make money, and, in this objective, it is often successful. Many of them do make money, and the ones who do not obligingly regard themselves as failures who have wasted the precious gift of life.”

Business Successful Citizens Training Regard Objectives Making Money Precious Gifts Gifts Of Life

Author:Margaret Halsey

“An unreflective passion for social justice may be one of the biggest obstacles to creating peace and prosperity in the 21st century. While there are most certainly factory owners in China whom we would rightly regard as criminal in their treatment of their workers, it is very important not to confuse these incidents with the phenomenon of globalization. It is a good thing that Wal-Mart is encouraging more humane standards in its supplier's factories.”

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”

“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.”

Artist House Business Regard Chickens Architect Desirable Cathedrals Poultry

Book:Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932

Source: Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932

“People are unlikely to know that they need a product which does not exist and the basis of market research in new and innovative products is limited in this regard.”

People Knows Needs Doe Business Products Research Bases Regard Unlikely Innovative Market Research

Author:John Harvey-Jones