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“Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power, this story never would have been written. Were it alone in these methods, public scorn would long ago have made short work of the Standard Oil Company. But it is simply the most conspicuous type of what can be done by these practices. The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.”
Source : Ida M. Tarbell (2009). “The History of the Standard Oil Company”, p.287, Cosimo, Inc.
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“Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed that woman's road to gentility would lie through doing nothing at all.”
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“To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest..”
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“Its intuition that works. Just intuition.""Waterstones was aimed at me. I knew that I wanted, and badly needed in my life, bookshops just like the ones I was creating. I simply assumed that plenty of other people, no doubt of wildly differing demographics, would find once they saw them that they wanted them too. Well - they did.”
Source : Tim Waterstone (2013). “Swimming Against the Stream: Creating Your Business and Making Your Life”, p.130, Pan Macmillan
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“Confidence is the foundation for all business relations. The degree of confidence a man has in others, and the degree of confidence others have in him, determines a man's standing in the commercial and industrial world.”
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“I think by that time I knew where Chewie was going, and he left me to do what was called for, because the character had been well established. You know, it was like putting on a second skin by that time.”
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“If you really think you're right, you should tell it.”
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“There's enough brackets put on us already, we don't need to bracket our creativity anymore than we do.”
Source : "Personality Clash: Kate Tempest x Loyle Carner". www.clashmusic.com. May 10, 2016. 
