"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later."

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Source : "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, 1984.

Harold Geneen

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“O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!”
“The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.”

Source : "Nicholas Stern: We must not give in to pessimism" by James Randerson, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2009.
“Suffering is essential for the elimination of the ego, just as it was necessary for you to scrub and scrub in order to wash the stain from my coat.”
“I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't realize you're on the floor.”
“A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.”

Source : Speech, Springfield, Ill., 4 July 1903 See Theodore Roosevelt 12
“Why beer is better than wine: human feet are conspicuously absent from beer making.”
“The one thing that is always clear in my mind is that the people, and their stories, and the themes of life that I photograph are always more important to me than the process of photography itself.”
“It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive, in inquiries of this kind, at the fundamental principle, that the greater the number of individuals observed, the more do individual peculiarities, whether physical or moral, become effaced, and leave in a prominent point of view the general facts, by virtue of which society exists and is preserved.”

Source : Francis Bisset Hawkins, Adolphe Quetelet (1973). “Comparative statistics in the 19th century”, Gregg Revivals

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