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Proverbs 14:23

"In all labor there is profit, but idle chatter leads only to poverty." – Prov 14:23 (NKJV) •••

Collosians 3:17

"Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a just man, and he will increase in learning." - Prov 9:9 (NKJV) •••

Colossians 3:23-24

And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. (KJV) •••

Leviticus 19:36

Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt. (KJV) •••

Proverbs 16:8

Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right. (KJV) •••

Proverbs 20:10

Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD. (KJV) •••

Warren Buffet on Buying Stocks

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years. Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. •••

Warren Buffet on Buying a Company

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price. When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. - Warren •••

Warren Buffet on Hiring Employees

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction. - Warren Buffet, famous investor and chairman of holding company Berkshire Hathaway •••

Larry Bossidy on Hiring Employees

I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies. - Larry Bossidy, former CEO of Honeywell and former CEO of Allied Signal •••

Scott Cook on Customer Focus

Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff. - Scott Cook, founder of Quicken and Intuit •••

Scott Cook on Technology

Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present. Technology can make tremendous changes in slashing the costs of marketing and distribution.Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for •••

John Doerr on Technology

People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age. The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content. There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, •••

Bill Gates on Technology

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user. Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think •••

Bill Gates on Business Trends

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50. We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let •••

Steve Ballmer on Hiring Employees

All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. Great companies have high cultures of accountability. - Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft •••

Jeff Bezos on Strategy

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well. If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful. There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and •••

Leo Burnett on Advertising

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink. Advertising says to people, "Here's what we've got. Here's what it will do for you. Here's how to get it." Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it •••

Andrew Carnegie on Strategy

Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it. •••

Mary Kay Ash on Sales

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ''Make me feel important.'' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life. - Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics •••

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