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Business cannot eliminate unemployment, but each business can do its competitive best to expand its own sales and employment.
There is only one valid definition of business: to create a customer.

The Practice of Management (1954)
All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside.
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.
The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.
Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.
There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.
My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.
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