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represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.
—Dave Barry, columnist
The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of
discipline.
—Jim Collins, business consultant, author, and lecturer (from his book Good to Great: Why Some
Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t, 2001) But while my inner voice was clearly
telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it’s inconvenient to decide at twenty-three that you
can’t really work for other people.
—Kelly Cutrone, fashion publicist (from her book If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other
Things Your Mother Never Told You)
In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
—Alexandre Dumas, writer
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
—Will Rogers, American cowboy, vaudeville performer, humorist, newspaper columnist, social
commentator, and stage and motion picture actor Be the kind of person who catches the shit
before it hits the fan, not the one who scrapes it off afterwards.
—Jonas Eriksson, writer (from his book The Wake-Up Call)
Long-range planning works best in the short term.
