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BUSINESS: The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. (Unknown Source)
BUSINESS: If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. (Unknown source)
BUSINESS: The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. (Confucius, Chinese philosopher and teacher, c. 551-478 BCE)
BUSINESS: People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. (Adam Smith, Scottish economist and moral philosopher who laid the foundations of classical free market economic theory 1723-1790)
BUSINESS: The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. (Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate and husband of Jacqueline Kennedy, the widow of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, 1906-1975)
BUSINESS: Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same. (Malcolm Forbes, U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, 1919-1990)
BUSINESS: A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. (Henry Ford, U.S. founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947)
BUSINESS: A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator. (Paul Valery, French poet, essayist and philosopher, 1871-1945)
BUSINESS: A company is judged by the president it keeps. (Unknown source)
BUSINESS: Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise. (Laurence J. Peter, Canadian educator best known for the formulation of the Peter principle - managers rise to the level of their incompetence,1919-1990)