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Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

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I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.

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Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac's talents didn't extend to investing: He lost a bundle in the South Sea Bubble, explaining later, 'I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.' If he had not been traumatized by this loss, Sir Isaac might well have gone on to discover the Fourth Law of Motion: For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases.

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Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.

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To lead people, walk behind them.

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Please all, and you will please none.

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Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I say, a militarism without the military virtues.

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I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

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When we control business in the public interest we are also bound to encourage it in the public interest or it will be a bad thing for everybody and worst of all for those on whose behalf the control is nominally exercised.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Business Quotes , Worst Quotes

Remember the Three Princes of Serendip who went out looking for treasure? They didn't find what they were looking for, but they kept finding things just as valuable. That's serendipity, and our business [drugs] is full of it.

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Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business.

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Two rules: 1. Preserve the principal 2. When in doubt, see Rule #1.

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I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.

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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

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The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

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Though inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.

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Customers want brands that are narrow in scope and distinguishable by a single word, the shorter the better.

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