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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z · 1986

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“Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left. I believe that the prime responsibility of a manager is to guard constantly against other people’s attacks and to inculcate this guardian attitude in the people under his or her management.”

Andrew S. Grove · High Output Management, 1983 · Primary source

“The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Wealth, 1860 · Primary source

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