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"People of medicore ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to."
George Allen

"Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge and insights; it is also crucial to unlearn old knowledge that has outlive its relevance. Thus, forgetting is probably at least as important as learning."
Gary Ryan Blair

"Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile."
Gary Ryan Blair

"Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to."
Harry Emerson Fosdick

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
Henry Ford

"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
Howard Aiken

"I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business."
Henry David Thoreau

"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."
Henry Ford

"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later."
Harold S. Geneen

"The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed."
Henry Ford

"About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends."
Herbert Hoover

"Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight."
Henry R. Luce

"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

"Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality."
Henry Ward Beecher

"Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements."
H. S. M. Burns

"Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once."
Isaac Asimov

"The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork."
Igor Sikorsky

"I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me."
John Cleese

"The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark."
Jack Anderson

"The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights."
J. Paul Getty

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