We do not hear the term "compassionate" applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results in the measurable form of jobs created, lives enriched, communities built, living standards raised, and poverty healed, a handful of capitalists has done infinitely more for mankind than all the self-serving politicians, academics, social workers, and religionists who march under the banner of "compassion".
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Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can.
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Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.
Money is the sinews of love, as of war.
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Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.
Make sure you want it enough.
Make sure you want it enough.
The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.
The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.
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A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.
For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.
