If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the principal difference between a man and a dog. Mark Twain

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"Most businesses are trying to hit a home run every day in a new ball park."  Jay L. Abraham.

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“If there was anything the human race had a sufficiency of, a sufficiency and a surfeit, it was books,” ~ Joseph Mitchell, writer for The New Yorker.

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Budgets depend on dependable income, and that's not so dependable anymore.  Thom Forbes

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A consultant is an ordinary person a long way from home. ~ Ed Dyson

An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.  ~ Elbert Hubbard

If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?  ~ Elbert Hubbard

I wish others to live their lives, too, up to their highest, fullest and best. To that end I pray that I may never meddle, dictate, interfere, give advice that is not wanted, nor assist when my services are not needed. If I can help people I'll do it by giving them a chance to help themselves; and if I can uplift or inspire, let it be by example, inference and suggestion, rather than by injunction and dictation. That is to say, I desire to be Radiant—to Radiate Life.  ~ Elbert Hubbard

If you work for a man, in Heaven's name work for him. If he pays wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him, speak well of him, think well of him, and stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man, I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of his time, but all of his time. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must vilify, condemn, and eternally disparage, why, resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart's content. But, I pray you, so long as you are a part of an institution, do not condemn it. Not that you will injure the institution—not that—but when you disparage the concern of which you are a part, you disparage yourself. And don't forget—“I forgot” won't do in business.  ~ Elbert Hubbard

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I was destined for mountains of success, but I let a few excuses get the better of me. ~ Lin Stone

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. -- John W(illiam) Gardner

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Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road. -- Stewart Brand

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. ~ Warren Buffett

"If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. ~ Warren Buffett

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He went where only the lemmings will follow.  anon.

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If the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, you can rest assured that the water bill is higher over there too.  Bishop T.D Jakes

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Trouble looks back, worry looks ahead, faith looks up!  anon.

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“Free people don’t ‘exhaust’ resources. They create them.”  Malcolm S. Forbes Jr.

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Eighty percent of the human resources department is transactional government compliance and vendor management.  Brian Fayak

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We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. -- Henry David Thoreau

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The best thing I ever did for poor people is to not become one of them.  J. Paul Getty

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"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives." Willa A. Foster

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When you show the value of your product you won’t have to defend its price. Jim Meisenheimer

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"There will always be a place for good quality content that stands out from the crowd."  Steve Pavlina.

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The only way to stay ahead is to do the things you need to before you need to.

It's the gentle hand and the delicate touch that keeps our sights aimed straight.  Lin Stone 

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"That's not short-term thinking.  That's naive thinking."  Jay L. Abraham.

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Earth-shattering revelations aren’t what they used to be ~ Nicole Dean

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Failure is more frequently from want of energy than from want of capital.  Daniel Webster

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What is valuable is not new.  What is new is not valuable.  Daniel Webster

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Energy has always been the basis of cultural complexity and it always will be. The past clarifies potential paths to the future. One often-discussed path is cultural and economic simplicity and lower energy costs. This could come about through the "crash" that many fear -- a genuine collapse over a period of one or two generations, with much violence, starvation, and loss of population. The alternative is the "soft landing" that many people hope for - a voluntary change to solar energy and green fuels, energy-conserving technologies, and less overall consumption. This is a utopian alternative that, as suggested above, will come about only if severe, prolonged hardship in industrial nations makes it attractive, and if economic growth and consumerism can be removed from the realm of ideology. Joseph A. Tainter

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The best men as men, and the best workmen, are not walking the streets looking for work. ~ Andrew Carnegie

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There is one great difference between the American working-man and the foreigner. The American is a man ~ Andrew Carnegie

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The nation that has the best home market, especially if products are standardized, as ours are, can soon outsell the foreign producer. ~ Andrew Carnegie

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The losses men encounter during a business life which seriously embarrass them are rarely in their own business, but in enterprises of which the investor is not master ~ Andrew Carnegie

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the true road to preëminent success in any line is to make yourself master in that line ~ Andrew Carnegie

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It is essential to permanent success that a house should obtain a reputation for being governed by what is fair rather than what is merely legal. ~ Andrew Carnegie

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Stock gambling and honorable business are incompatible. ~ Andrew Carnegie

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Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none. ~ Andrew Carnegie

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No expenditure returned such dividends as the friendship of our workmen. ~ Andrew Carnegie

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I believe that higher wages to men who respect their employers and are happy and contented are a good investment, yielding, indeed, big dividends. ~ Andrew Carnegie

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It is for the interest of the employer that his men shall make good earnings and have steady work. ~ Andrew Carnegie

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High wages are well enough, but they are not to be compared with steady employment. ~ Andrew Carnegie

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It is not capital we need to guard, but helpless labor. ~ Andrew Carnegie

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I am certain that disputes about wages do not account for one half the disagreements between capital and labor. ~ Andrew Carnegie

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If it be asked which man of our age, or even of the past ages, has risen from the lowest to the highest, the answer must be Booker Washington. He rose from slavery to the leadership of his people—a modern Moses and Joshua combined, leading his people both onward and upward. ~ Andrew Carnegie

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I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.~ E.V. Lucas

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You cannot lift prejudice from the public eye by presenting facts.