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Field, Marshall. "America's Biggest Taxpayer Is a Merchant Prince of Chicago: Leads Country's Big Taxpayers." The Sunday Herald, 3 Sept. 1905, Women's section, p. 10, col. 2.

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Ford, Henry. Interviewed by Charles N. Wheeler. Chicago Tribune, 25 May 1916.

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Jobs, Steve. Stanford Commencement Address. 12 June 2005, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

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Buffett, Warren. Letter to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders. 2001.

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Jobs, Steve. Quoted in Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple, by John Sculley and John A. Byrne. Harper & Row, 1987, ch. 6.

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

Steve Jobs

Inviting John Sculley, then president of Pepsi, to join Apple.

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Jobs, Steve. Quoted in Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple, by John Sculley and John A. Byrne. Harper & Row, 1987, ch. 3. Originally a comment made to persuade John Sculley to become Apple's CEO, c. 1983.

Business is war. It's dog eat dog, rat eat rat. If my competitor were drowning, I'd walk over and I'd put a hose right in his mouth.

Ray Kroc

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Founder. Directed by John Lee Hancock, FilmNation Entertainment/The Combine/Faliro House Productions S. A., 2016.

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Ogilvy, David. Confessions of an Advertising Man. Atheneum, 1963, ch. 5.

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Brand, Stewart. "Whole Earth Epilog." Whole Earth Catalog, Oct. 1974.

In the factory, we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope.

Charles H. Revson

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Revson, Charles. Quoted in Fire and Ice: The Story of Charles Revson, the Man Who Built the Revlon Empire, written by Andrew P. Tobias. ‎William Morrow & Co., 1976, ch. 8.

I have 14 other grandchildren and if I pay one penny now, I'll have 14 kidnapped grandchildren.

J. Paul Getty

To reporters after his grandson was kidnapped and a ransom payment was demanded.

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Getty, Jean Paul. Statement to the press about his grandson's kidnapping. 26 July 1973, Guilford, England, UK.

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Morita, Akio. Interviewed by U.K. Sunday Telegraph. c. 1988.

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Perot, Ross. Spoken at a presidential debate. Presidential debate. 15 Oct. 1992, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, USA.

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Edison, Thomas Alva. Interview. New York World, 17 Nov. 1895.

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Gates, Bill and Collins Hemingway. Business @ the Speed of Thought. Grand Central Publishing, 1999.

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Jobs, Steve. Stanford Commencement Address. 12 June 2005, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

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Jobs, Steve. "Steve Jobs: 'There's Sanity Returning'." Interviewed by Andy Reinhardt. BusinessWeek, 25 May 1998.

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Carnegie, Andrew. Triumphant Democracy. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886, ch. 16.

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Ford, Henry and Samuel Crowther. My Life and Work. Doubleday, 1922, ch. 4.

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Jobs, Steve. Stanford Commencement Address. 12 June 2005, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.