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The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.


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HAROLD EVANS For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.
HAROLD EVANS I think America has a brilliant future.
HAROLD EVANS Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with pa...
HAROLD EVANS The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
HAROLD COFFIN The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.
HAROLD COFFIN When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
HAROLD COFFIN Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
HAROLD COFFIN In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything a...
HAROLD COFFIN Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
HAROLD COFFIN Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
HAROLD COFFIN I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.
HAROLD BUDD I'm not really a pianist.
HAROLD BUDD I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
HAROLD BUDD