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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. – Adam Smith
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. - Freeman Dyson
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. - Bill Gates
Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than - Alfred P Sloanyou hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses.
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. - Theodore Roosevelt
Being a leader is like being a lady, if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't – Margret Thatcher
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions. – Ben Franklin
You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place. - Vladimir Putin
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages. - Adam Smith
People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things. - Edmund Hillary
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near. - Margret Thatcher
The one thing I learned from that experience was that it's more difficult to go down a mountain than to go up. A lot of people don't realize that. - Glenn Ford
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. - Edmund Hillary
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another. - Adam Smith
I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have. - Leonardo da Vinci
I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world. - Evel Knievel
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top. - Booker T Washington
- Napolean Bonaparte
The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights. - Muhammad Ali
It is important to have friends who will back you up no matter what the circumstances. - Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order. - John Gotti
A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself - Lisa Kirk
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript. - Aleister Crowley
We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man. -Ernest Shackleton
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. - Ray Bradbury
