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The corporation is the "master", the employee is the "servant". Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee could not make a living, the employee needs the corporation more than vice versa.

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs; diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought; superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.

The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.

The current model is global suicide. We need a revolution. Revolutionary thinking. Revolutionary action. Natural resources are becoming more and more scarce.

The customer is always right.

The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.

The degree to which the opportunity to use power effectively is granted to or withheld from individuals is one operative difference between those companies which stagnate and those which innovate.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

The difference in winning & losing is most often, not quitting.

The digital premium business content model is broken and we should all be taking appropriate steps now to ensure the viability of this business is preserved by other means.

The distinctions between advertising and marketing are blurring, requiring new roles and new forms of consumer-centric marketing.

The downside, of course, is that over time religions become encrusted with precepts and ideas that are the antithesis of soul, as each faith tries to protect its doctrines and institution instead of nurturing the evolution of consciousness. If one is not careful to distinguish the genuine insights of a religion from its irrelevant accretions, one can go through life following an inappropriate moral compass.

The early Rockefellers made their wealth from being in certain businesses and remained personally very wealthy. Tata's were different in the sense the future generations were not so wealthy. They were involved in the business but most of the family wealth was put into trust and most of the family did not in fact did not enjoy enormous wealth.

The early years were more about learning than about acting. I had to carry on my father's work, which was a big challenge.

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.

The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.

The efficient use of energy is as much an issue for Saudi Arabia, with its huge natural resources, as it is for all countries. Increased efficiency makes sense environmentally, but also economically.

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.

The emphasis placed by more and more companies on corporate social responsibility, symbolises the recognition that prosperity is best achieved in an inclusive society.

The E Myth. Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

The enemy of stability can be complacency

The essence of good advertising is not to inspire hope, but to create greed.

The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services.

The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?

The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action

The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men.

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

The fact that used cars is our largest category is a good example. We would not have sat in a conference room and said, "Hey, how about used cars?" So what can be learned that is extensible to other companies is to ask what are your customers doing with your products that maybe you didn't anticipate that they would do? How do you think of your customers as your research and development lab, as opposed to having an R&D lab at headquarters?

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

The fewer data needed, the better the information. And an overload of information, that is, anything much beyond what is truly needed, leads to information blackout. It does not enrich, but impoverishes.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

The first law of economics is that when the price goes up, consumption comes down. This is a divine law.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.

The first thing to decide before you walk into any negotiation is what to do if the other fellow says 'no'.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

The Forgotten Man is delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school, reading his newspaper, and cheering for the politician of his admiration, but he is the only one for whom there is no provision in the great scramble and the big divide. Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays — but he always pays — yes, above all, he pays.

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.

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the person of inferior emotional balance, or the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor.