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Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay. The upshot is that a mediocre-or-worse CEO - aided by his handpicked VP of human relations and a consultant from the ever-accommodating firm of Ratchet, Ratchet and Bingo - all too often receives gobs of money from an ill-designed compensation arrangement.

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We intend to conduct our business in a way that not only meets but exceeds the expectations of our customers, business partners, shareholders, and creditors, as well as the communities in which we operate and society at large.

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Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change. With Wrigley chewing gum, it's the lack of change that appeals to me. I don't think it is going to be hurt by the Internet. That's the kind of business I like.

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That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.

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Business today consists in persuading crowds.

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In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

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...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.

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Inspiration and genius -one and the same.

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It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

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I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

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The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

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Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

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We few. We happy few. We band of brothers, for he today That sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother.

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A pack of lemmings looks like a group of rugged individualists compared with Wall Street when it gets a concept in its teeth.

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In our view, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction carrying dangers that, while latent, are potentially lethal.

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

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For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

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An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.

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