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A man may be concerned in the management of more than one business enterprise, but they should all be of the one kind, which he understands. The great successes of life are made by concentration.

'From Oakland: How to Succeed in Life,' The Pittsburgh Bulletin (1903)
Economic activity should not only be efficient in its use of resources but should also be socially just, and environmentally and ecologically sustainable.

Beyond Leadership: Balancing Economics, Ethics and Ecology (1994)
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
Business is all about putting out money today to get a whole lot back later.

Quoted in Treasury of Investment Wisdom (1999)
Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.
The world of business is still very, very paper-oriented...Although they may use personal computers...most of the information they work with ends up on paper.. Well, all of that will go away. It will simply be a series of bits that are transmitted, and then automatically categorized.

Speech, Manhattan Institute, New York City (December 2, 1998)
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.

Quoted in The Arizona Republic (1999)
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
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