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The world of business is still very, very paper-oriented...Although they may use personal computers...most of the information they work with ends up on paper.. Well, all of that will go away. It will simply be a series of bits that are transmitted, and then automatically categorized.

Speech, Manhattan Institute, New York City (December 2, 1998)
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.

Quoted in The Arizona Republic (1999)
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
Business cannot eliminate unemployment, but each business can do its competitive best to expand its own sales and employment.
There is only one valid definition of business: to create a customer.

The Practice of Management (1954)
All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside.
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.
The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
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