Theory is very helpful in business, but only when the business has already been settled.
-- Italo Svevo
Nothing is as irritating as the fellow that chats pleasantly while he's over-charging you.
-- Kin Hubbard
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give it to them. By the time you build it, they'll want something new.
-- Steve Jobs
Half the time when men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
-- E. W. Howe
Clarity trumps persuasion.
-- Dr. Flint McGlaughlin
Knowledge without courage is sterile.
-- Baltasar Gracian
Nothing is free anymore to sell itself or give itself away.
-- Jean Giraudoux
Bring the best of your authentic self to every opportunity.
-- John Jantsch
When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage, however, that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.
-- Laurence Sterne
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
-- Sam Walton
Good bargains empty pockets.
-- German proverb
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