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“If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.”— George Bernard Shaw
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“Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.”— Dale Carnegie
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“Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.”— Herbert Hoover
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“Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.”— Thomas A. Edison
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“We make silk purses out of silk.”— Warren Buffett
Source:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I7utGAEhDI&t=1m51s
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“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”— Warren Buffett
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“Bring a timer.”— Steve Jobs
Context:To an outsider pushing for just "5 minutes of his time"
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“Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.”— Walt Disney
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“Many iOS developers model App Store pricing after mass-market superhits. Would you enter the restaurant business by mimicking McDonalds?”— Daniel Jalkut
Source:https://twitter.com/danielpunkass/status/427105052852244480
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“Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.”— Charlie Munger
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“There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.”— David Letterman
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“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.”— Elon Musk
Source:Elon Musk Biography. p 73.
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“Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.”— Thomas A. Edison
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“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”— Henry Ford
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“The purpose of a business is to create a customer.”— Peter Drucker
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“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”— Bill Gates
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“You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.”— Rod Stewart
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“I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.”— Rihanna
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“What other people think of me is none of my business.”— Gary Oldman
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“This is why I’m taking extra time to really try to get it right. I’ll have plenty of time to refine the style, but I want the basics solid.”— Marco Arment
Context:On building his next project, a podcast client called Overcast.
Source:https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/427300033697165312
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“People really don’t like to hear success explained away as luck — especially successful people.”— Michael Lewis
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“If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.”— Jeff Bezos
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“I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.”— Jeff Bezos
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“If the service is free, the product being sold is you.”