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My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley.
The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.
A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation
For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation
Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling
Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money
Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it
Business is the salt of life
There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch
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