Utility is our national ...

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
 Edward Dahlberg

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
 Sam Walton
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

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What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful.
 Edward Dahlberg
We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism.
 Edward Dahlberg
Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.
 Edward Dahlberg
Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is unsourced, and he has no images by which to abide.
 Edward Dahlberg
Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.
 Edward Dahlberg