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"I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes." »Kahlil Gibran
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"In business when you are attracting new business by the positive manner with which you have handled your old business that is called magnetism and it is practically irresistible." »Chase LeBlanc
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"A credit union is not an ordinary financial concern, seeking to enrich its members at the expense of the general public. Neither is it a loan company, seeking to make a profit at the expense of the unfortunates… The credit union is nothing of the kind; it is the expression in the field of economics of a high social ideal." »Alphonse Desjardins, The Canadian credit union pioneer made the remarks in a speech in the early 1900s.
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"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business." »Henry Ford
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"Innovation in products, services, value chains and business models is the only sustainable growth strategy. New knowledge and business networks will shape the new global economy." »Med Jones
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"The chief business of the American people is business." »Calvin Coolidge
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"Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly." »Aldus Manutius
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"There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting." »David Letterman
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"Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible." »Samuel Goldwyn
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"Spare no expense to save money on this one." »Samuel Goldwyn
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"Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain." »Marquis de Sade
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"Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth." »Johann Georg von Zimmermann
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"Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." »Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848
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"The corporation has evolved to serve the interests of whoever controls it, at the expense of whoever does not." »William Dugger
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"Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable." »Lord Chesterfield
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"The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable." »Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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"For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business." »D. W. Brogan
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"The state is the great ficticious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else." »Frederic Bastait, Letters to the Economist March 5, 2005
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"Of children as of procreation - the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable." »Evelyn Waugh
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"In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment." »Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species 1859
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"Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life." »Robert Byrne
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"All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: "Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?"" »Dave Barry, "Sweating Out Taxes"
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"Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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"There's no business like show business." »Irving Berlin
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"What business strategy is all about; what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning - is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors" »Keniche Ohnae
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"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling." »Ambrose Bierce
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"A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live." »Voltaire
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"The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete." »Confucius
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"It's as if we think liberation a fixed quantity, that there is only so much to go around. That an individual or community is liberated at the expense of another When we view liberation as a scarce resource, something only a precious few of us can have, we stifle our potential, our creativity, our genius for living, learning and growing." »Andrea Canaan
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"My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often--in fact, mostly--at the expense of everything else in my life." »Stan Getz
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