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If businessmen always made the right decisions, business wouldn't be business.

How to Be Rich (1965)
I think a man is a business failure who lets his family life interfere with his business record... business is no place for him.

Quoted in Getty on Getty (1989)
The newest technologies (flexible manufacturing, faster computers, and better telecommunications) have reduced the optimum size of any business.

Economist (1990)
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience, like the experience first; the cash will come later.

Managing (1984)
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises�but only performance is reality.

Managing (1984)
Business is many things, the least of which is the balance sheet. It is a fluid, ever changing, living thing, sometimes building to great peaks, sometimes falling to crumbled lumps.

Managing (1984)
Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business.

Speech to the Institute of Directors, London. 'Growing Bigger While Still Staying Small' (1993)
One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.
In a restless, creative business with an emphasis on experiment and development, ideas are the lifeblood.

Speech to the Institute of Directors, London. 'Growing Bigger While Still Staying Small' (1993)
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