I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.Pablo Picas...
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money
Supply & demand
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.Jay Le...
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entrepreneurship
Money and wealth
The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.If you know the author of this quote, please rea...
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measurement
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money
Advertising job
Don't tell my mother I work in an advertising agency - she thinks I play piano in a whorehouse.Jacques Segue...
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advertising
Banking problems
If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.JP Get...
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bank
Vision / action
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes time. Vision with action can change the world.Joel Bark...
Going to Hong Kong
The difficulty in going from Vilvorde* to Hong Kong is not going to Hong Kong, but leaving Vilvorde.Jacques Brel Translated from French: "La difficulté d’aller de Vilvorde à Hong Kong, ce n’est pas d’aller à Hong Kong, c’est de quitter Vilvorde"* Vilvorde: small city near Brussels, Belgi...
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action
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entrepreneurship
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plan
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results
Experience
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.F. Jon...
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experience
The main thing - Stephen Covey
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.quote by Stephen Covey...
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-my favourites
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priorities
Downsizing
Firings used to be done with surgical cleanliness.Today they call them 'downsizings' and they use a meat cleaver.Harvey Mack...
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crisis
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downsizing
Priorities
Don't tell me where your priorities are.Show me where you spend your money and I'll tell you what they are.James Fri...
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money
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priorities
Discovery
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselvesquote by Galileo Galil...
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innovation
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learning
Scheduling priorities - Stephen Covey
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.Stephen Covey...
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priorities
Dividing an elephant
Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants, it produces a mess.Peter Sen...
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problem solving
Brilliant idea
Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangoverJimmy Bresl...
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ideas
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innovation
Creative genius
First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius.Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are.Third, leave them to go get on with it.David Ogil...
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advertising
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creativity
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talent
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trust
Old masters
Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistressesLord Beaverbro...
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:-)
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investment
Lending 20 $
If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.If you know the author of this quote, please rea...
Computers: female or male ?
Computers must be female. No one but the creator understands their internal logic. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else. The message "Bad command or file name" is about as informative as, "If you don't know why I'm mad at you, then I'm certainly not going to tell you." Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for later retrieval. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.Computers must be male. As soon as you commit to one you realize that if you...
Catalogue
If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue. Sears, Roebuck, and Co. Consumer's Guide, 18...
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advertising
Copyright law
Only one thing is impossible for God:to find any sense in any copyright law around the world.Mark Twa...
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law
Design - Steve Jobs
It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. Steve Jo...
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design
The causes of action - Cruyff
Sometimes something has to happen before something will happen.Translated from Dutch: "Soms moet er iets gebeuren voordat er iets gebeurt"Johan Cruy...
Useless efficiency - Peter Drucker
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.Peter Druck...
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efficiency
Know yourself and your enemy - Sun Tzu
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.Sun T...