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Posted on August 4, 2021August 4, 2021

“I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.”—Cyrus Ching, American labor union mediator, 1876-1967

Posted on July 27, 2021July 27, 2021

“People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.”—Anatole France, French man-of-letters, 1844-1924

Posted on July 14, 2021July 14, 2021

“If you don’t bring Paris with you, you won’t find it there.”—John M. Shanahan, American entrepreneur, 1928-2005

Posted on June 27, 2021June 27, 2021

“I’m actually as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done.”—Steve Jobs, American business magnate, 1955-2011

Posted on June 17, 2021June 17, 2021

“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.”—Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist, 1937-2005

Posted on June 10, 2021

“Haste in every business brings failures.”—Herodotus, Greek historian, 5th century BC

Posted on June 2, 2021June 2, 2021

“Any man who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can’t afford one.”—John Pierpont Morgan, American financier, 1837-1913

Posted on April 8, 2016August 25, 2021

“Union gives strength.”—Aesop, Greek fabulist, 620-564 BC

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