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".
. . economists know as much about how an economy works after
studying the business world for centuries as psychologists
know about how the mind works after studying human behavior,
also for centuries. Essentially nothing." |
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"Conducting
market research to determine whether or not to go into a
specific business is no less foolish than conducting market
research to determine whether or not to get married." |
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"Company
policy . . . should only be as permanent as words written
on water, sentences penned in the wind, paragraphs fashioned
in smoke. There mustn’t be anything sacred about it." |
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".
. . stay away from business schools . . . [and] . . . business
courses. You'll pick up a lot of bad habits." |
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"The
term ‘statistical evidence’ is as much an oxymoron as is
the term ‘pregnant virgin'." |
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".
. . making business decisions based on government statistics
is like carrying an umbrella in Phoenix, Arizona, in the
middle of the summer because the average rainfall for the
entire country that day was predicted to be .7 inches. Absurd!" |
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"Money
is no substitute for brain power and imagination . . . Money
can be like a crutch in the sense that if you think you
can't walk without one, you won't; but if you think you
can walk without one, you will."  |
