"Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it’s been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries."
― Doug Coupland
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― Doug Coupland
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- "Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure."
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- "I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business."― Stephen Ambrose
- "It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business."― Herbert Hoover
- "To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less."― Andre Malraux