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“Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.”

World Littles Business Taken Cutting Pimp

Book:The Madwoman of Chaillot: Comedy in Two Acts

Source: The Madwoman of Chaillot: Comedy in Two Acts

“Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.”

Ifs Artist Business Taken Fellows Favour Undercut

Author:Elizabeth Aston

“Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound and there is nothing in the business situation to warrant the destruction of values that has taken place on the exchanges during the past week, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks. We are continuing and will continue our purchases in substantial amounts at levels which we believe represent sound investment values.”

Believe Country Past Values Sound Levels Common Business Situation Taken Week Conditions Son Amount Destruction Fundamentals Investment My Son Continuing Warrants Purchasing

Author:John D. Rockefeller

“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.”

Ifs Writing Two Use Action Order Three Stuff Simple Forget Business Taken Written Week Havens Valuable Cards Productive Assets Forget It

Author:Seth Godin

“Well, it's taken time to get this going, but he was right. If you give people a chance to associate themselves with a cause they care about, while buying a great product, they will. That was how the RED Campaign was born, here in Davos.”

People Ifs Giving Wells Care Causes Born Chance Business Taken Products Red Campaigns Buying Associates Davos

Author:Bill Gates

“Man's ignorance of the Law of Love in personal and world relationships will not serve as an excuse to save him from disaster. Wealth cannot be acquired from others by might, for wealth thus taken will impoverish him who takes anything which is not given. Nor can power be thus acquired, for the weakness of the despoiled will prevail against the might of the despoiler.”

Men World Might Law Given Wealth Business Taken Ignorance Weakness Excuse Disaster Ignorance Of The Law

Author:Walter Russell

“... it is a lonely programme. The very virtues you cultivate become walls that inevitably separate you from your kind.... A new danger comes to your soul, and intolerance and impatience with those who are as you have been all but destroy that which you have taken such pains to build up. Not alone are there spiritual barriers between you and the friends that you have, but your business training has made your mind incisive. In the swift rush of business you have no time for small debates and petty dilemmas.”

“What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.”

People Way War Moments Care Turns Fighting Business Taken Comedy Campaigns Shock Touching Turn-on Dimes

Author:Dennis Miller

“It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.”

Men Business Taken Pressure Servant Manhood Very Sad

Book:Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man

Source: Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man

“Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.”

“It has taken more than a hundred scientists two years to find out how to make the product in question; I have been given thirty days to create its personality and plan its launching. If I do my job well, I shall contribute as much as the hundred scientists to the success of this product.”

Ifs Years Wells Has Beens Two Jobs Given Business Taken Plans Products Personality Hundred Scientist Advertising Thirty Two Years Launching

Book:Confessions of an advertising man

Source: Confessions of an advertising man

“The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century ... has taken place via globalization.”

Facts Past Business Successful Taken Economic Century Example Development Globalization Economic Development Self Sufficiency Economic Globalization

Author:Paul Krugman