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"Mission is at the heart of what you do as a team. Goals are merely steps along the way to achievement."
Patrick Dixon, Building a Better Business, 2005

"You can say the right thing about a product and nobody will listen. You've got to say it in a way that people will feel in their gut. Because if they don't feel it, nothing will happen."
William Bernbach

"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows."
Aristotle Onassis

"The fashion wears out more apparel than the man."
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

"It is better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it."
Gerard Patrick Roeling

"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"
William Shakespeare

"A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts."
Richard Branson

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
Herman Cain

"Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it."
Soren Kierkegaard

"Most people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want to acquire."
Anwar El-Sadat

"Your company's most valuable asset is how it is known to its customers."
Brian Tracy

"I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money."
Pablo Picasso

"I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o'clock in the morning."
John Barrymore

"The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts."
Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Las Vegas: all the amenities of modern society in a habitat unfit to grow a tomato."
Jason Love

"Today, there are three kinds of people: the have's, the have-not's, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-have's."
Earl Wilson

"If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience."
Robert Fulghum

"There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up."
Rex Stout

"Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions."
Brendan Francis

"Funny that a pair of really nice shoes make us feel good in our heads - at the extreme opposite end of our bodies."
Levende Waters

"A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle."
Jonathan Swift

"Cigarette sales would drop to zero overnight if the warning said "Cigarettes contain fat.""
Dave Barry

"If you don't get what you want, it's a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price."
Rudyard Kipling

"When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul."
Max Beerbohm

"A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend."
Ward McAllister

"Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair."
Sam Ewing

"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."
Frank Lloyd Wright

"There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one."
Jack Yelton

"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do."
Willa Cather

"We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics."
Bill Vaughan

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