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“The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple: Reality is negotiable.”

“If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It's simple: if three weeks go by and you haven't taken action on what you've written down, you wasted your time.”

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Author:Seth Godin

“Well, years and years ago, I started to ask myself three very simple questions, which dominated my life for many years. One of them was, "Why are organizations everywhere, whether commercial, social, or religious, increasingly unable to manage their affairs?" The second question was, "Why are individuals throughout the world increasingly in conflict with and alienated from the organizations of which they're a part?" And the third was, "Why are society and the biosphere increasingly in disarray?"”

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Author:Dee Hock

“The answer is simple, and harsh. The market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidize it. So the children died because their mothers and their fathers had no power in the market and no voice in the system.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication, compared with the simple altar-like structure and silent heart-language of the old sundials! It stood as the garden god of Christian gardens. Why is it almost everywhere vanished? If its business-use be superseded by more elaborate inventions, its moral uses, its beauty, might have pleaded for its continuance.”

Source: A complete Elia: The essays of Elia, together with The last essays of Elia

“We really began to think in different ways about our business in terms of climbing this mountain and it became very clear very quickly this was the smart thing to do. Not only did we start to generate answers for those customers, they embraced us for what we were trying to do. The goodwill in the market place has just been stunning. The rest of the business case is pretty simple. I cost it down not up.”

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Author:Ray Anderson

“Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.”

“The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.”

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Author:Walter Lippmann

“There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.”

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Author:Michael Moore

“They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.”

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Book:The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan

Source: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”

“I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.”

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Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.”

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Book:Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys; a Sequel to

Source: Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys; a Sequel to

“It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.”

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Author:O. Henry

“The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.”

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Author:Tom Peters

“The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.”

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Author:George Nelson

“This may seem simple, but you need to give customers what they want, not what you think they want. And, if you do this, people will keep coming back.”

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Author:John Ilhan

“That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door. That we can have an idea and start our own business without paying a bribe or hearing a sudden knock on the door. That we can participate in the political process without fear of retribution, and that our votes will be counted.”

Source: An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer

“A model should be as simple as it can be but no simpler”

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Author:Albert Einstein

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