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Don't open a shop unless you like to smile.
-Chinese Proverb
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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.
-Japanese Proverb
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Instead of focusing on their individual agendas, collaborative partnerships establish common goals. In order to address problems that lie beyond any single agency's exclusive purview, but which concern them all, partners agree to pool resources, jointly plan, implement, and evaluate new services and procedures, and delegate individual responsibility for the outcomes of their joint efforts.
This quote comes from an oft-cited monograph by Atelia I. Melaville with Martin J. Blank called What It Takes: Structuring Interagency Partnerships to Connect Children and Families with Comprehensive Services (Washington DC: Education and Human Services Consortium, 1991).http://www.scottlondon.com/reports/ppcc.html
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Buying is cheaper than asking.
-Proverb
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Work is our business; it's success is God s.
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A miser and a liar bargain quickly.
-Proverb
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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.
-Proverb
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Cut your losses and let your profits run.
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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.
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It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
-Joseph Addison
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There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
-Joseph Addison
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The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
-Konrad Adenauer
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The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.
-Scott Alexander
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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.
-Fred A. Allen
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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.
-P. D. Armour
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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn. I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.
-Joe Bamford
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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.
-Bernard Baruch
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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be
-Gerald Barzan
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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.
-Kim Basinger
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If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper...
When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in the general welfare. Then jealousies between man and man, city and city, province and province, nation and nation, will no longer trouble the world.
-Fr
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The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.
-Orlando A. Battista
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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
-Charles Baudelaire
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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.
-Jean Baudrillard
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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.
-L.L. Bean
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Business is more exciting than any game.
-Lord Beaverbrook
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