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The customer is always right. ~ H. Gordon Selfridge When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. ~ William Wrigley Jr. In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing. ~ Owen D. Young There are more fakers in business than in jail. ~ Malcolm Forbes I wasn't that interested in the dollars-and-cents part of business. My interest in starting Mary Kay Inc. was to offer women opportunities that didn't exist anywhere else. ~ Mary Kay Ash And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you're consistent, you're vulnerable to attack. Yes, it's a paradox. Now deal with it! ~ Tom Peters He who will not apply himself to business, eventually discovers that he means to get his bread by cheating, stealing, or begging, or else is wholly void of reason. ~ Ischomachus Trade is a social act. ~ John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859 A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business. ~ Eric Hoffer 1 | 2
"He's a businessman. I'll make him an offer he can't refuse." ~ Mario Puzo, The Godfather, 1969