Alan Watts Quotes, Business Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist, and a bad one at that, since he has given no thought to his position.

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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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Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen. [Lat., Quod medicorum est Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.]

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

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

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One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.

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Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

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You who seek an end of love, love yields to business: be busy, and you will be safe.

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SUPPOSE that an investor you admire and trust comes to you with an investment idea. This is a good one, he says enthusiastically. I'm in it, and I think you should be, too.

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If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself.

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

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Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; making money is the by-product of our guiding purpose. If you're doing something you love, you're more likely to put your all into it, and that generally equates to making money

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If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing.

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It's better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.

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You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.

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Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

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The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men.

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