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. . . you worked for Harry King, they said, because a broken leg was bad for business, and Harry King was all about business. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#funny #mob #business

American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict....We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level, the economy of the nation, the empire of business within the republic, both include in their basic premise the idea of perpetual warfare ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

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I have missed more than nine thousand shots in my career. I have lost almost three hundred games. On twenty-six occasions, I have been entrusted to take the game-winning shot . . . and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. —MICHAEL JORDAN ↗

— Frank I. Luntz

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To be successful, you have to be able to relate to people; they have to be satisfied with your personality to be able to do buisness with you and to build a relationship with mutual trust. ↗

— Geroge Ross

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In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging. ↗

— Paul Allen

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He didn’t at all see why the busy bee should be proposed as a model to him; he supposed the Bee liked to make honey, or he wouldn’t do it — nobody asked him. It was not necessary for the bee to make such a merit of his tastes. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#deserving-merit #merit #business

This was the beginning. The end is easily foreseen; for, given a young man of Dick's temperament, longing for companionship, and another young man of Charlie's make−up, with a legitimate business to bring the two together, and only a friendship of the David and Jonathan order could result. ↗

— Harold Bell Wright

#friendship #friendships #business

To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#politics #business

Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die, and that is the end of it; and in the story that is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us. There is a most busy and important round of eating, drinking, dressing, walking, visiting, buying, selling, talking, reading, and all that makes up what is commonly called living. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Asking questions will get you the performance you are after far more than dictating demands. ↗

— Dan James

#leadership #business