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• We have never considered any costs as fixed. Therefore we first reduce the price to a point where we believe more sales will result. Then we go ahead and try to make the price. We do not bother about the costs. The new price forces the cost down.

  Henry Ford

  Believe, Trying, Cost

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.98, 谷月社

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• It always seemed, and still seems, ridiculously simple to say that if one can acquire a diversified group of common stocks at a price less than the applicable net current assets alone - after deducting all prior claims, and counting as zero the fixed and other assets - the results should be quite satisfactory.

  Benjamin Graham

  Zero, Simple, Groups

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• The SEC does way more good than harm - the last thing I would do is get rid of the SEC...if accounting were thoroughly fixed, a lot of other sins would go away. We're paying a huge price for deterioration of accounting.

  Charlie Munger

  Going Away, Doe, Deterioration

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• Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training

  Charles Handy

  Teacher, Home, School

  Charles B. Handy (2003). “The Elephant and the Flea: Reflections of a Reluctant Capitalist”, p.26, Harvard Business Press

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• I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less that God wishes - that every particle of spray that dashes against the steamboat has its orbit, as well as the sun in the heavens - that the chaff from the hand of the winnower is steered as the stars in their course. The creeping of an aphid over the rosebush is as much fixed as the march of the devastating pestilence - the fall of...leaves from a poplar is as fully ordained as the tumbling of an avalanche.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Stars, Moving, Fall

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1857). “Sermons of the Rev. C.H. Spurgeon: Second series”, p.201

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• As governor of Lagos, I never signed a cheque and never fixed contract prices.

  Babatunde Fashola

  Cheques, Contracts, Screening

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• When key users told us something wasn't working, we fixed it - immediately.

  Stewart Butterfield

  Keys, Users

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• Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it.

  William James

  Mean, Goal, Variables

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• Fixed formation is bad. Study this well.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Study, Wells, Formation

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.21, Bottom of the Hill

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• The indexing problem changes with each new book undertaken. To meet the needs of different classes of seekers and to suit various types of books, rules entirely satisfactory in one case must be varied in the next and perhaps ignored or even reversed for a third... Indexing is a highly complex intellectual process involving the use of language in a specific and somewhat artificial way, and that it is also to a considerable extent a matter of intuition, the workings of which cannot be reduced to fixed rules. It is 'knowing what but not knowing how'.

  Hans H Wellisch

  Book, Class, Knowing

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• Earlier in life, I put family in front of faith. I've fixed that. But I always tried to keep work fourth on the list. I was proud when [my wife] Nellie told an interviewer, 'I never could tell whether John had a good practice or a bad practice, because he never brought it home'

  John Wooden

  Home, Practice, Wife

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• I like to think of the landscape not as a fixed place but as a path that is unwinding before my eyes, under my feet. To see and know a place is a contemplative act. It means emptying our minds and letting what is there, in all its mulitplicity and endless variety, come in.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Mean, Eye, Thinking

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• I want the music to be heard as close to when I made it, as much as possible. I don't want to get into some "future of the music industry" thing, or where I stand on digital this or that, but I think it's ridiculous that a lot of people in the industry plan so far ahead that it makes a lot of improvisation impossible and makes a lot of people's expectations fixed and not fluid.

  Bradford Cox

  Thinking, People, Expectations

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I never listen to debates. They are dreadful things indeed. The plain truth is that I am not a fair man, and don't want to hear both sides. On all known subjects, ranging from aviation to xylophone-playing, I have fixed and invariable ideas. They have not changed since I was four or five.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Ideas, Four

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• Money has a fixed value. People can have unlimited value.

  Ron Kaufman

  People, Unlimited, Values

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• Flow in the living moment - We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed.

  Bruce Lee

  Flow, Becoming, Moments

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.13, Tuttle Publishing

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• When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Eye, Dark

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• Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.

  Andreas Gursky

  Photography, Definitions, Impossible

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• The book is about zombies, in that it is the over-arching theme, but what's going on is the story of these people and how these survivors deal. I think that's so much more of an interesting story, and that's what really gets and hooks these readers into the book and the show. It's a mix of fans of drama, fans of AMC, fans of horror and fans of Frank [Darabont]. It's a lot of people just coming together and realizing a genre doesn't have to be fixed in one specific detail.

  Steven Yeun

  Drama, Book, Thinking

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• While the human gaze becomes more and more fixed, losing some of its natural speed and sensitivity, photographic shots, on the contrary, become even faster.

  Paul Virilio

  Losing, Speed, Natural

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• The electronic image is not fixed to any material base and, like our DNA, it has become a code that can circulate to any container that will hold it, defying death as it travels at the speed of light.

  Bill Viola

  Light, Dna, Speed

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• No one has ever thought this: Now that I'm out of therapy and have fixed my mental problems, I think I want to be a ventriloquist.

  Dana Gould

  Thinking, Want, Problem

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• [With my photographs] you have a [single, forever fixed] moment and my particular angle of vision. My tyrannical condition, as it were, is that I prescribe your vision.

  Thomas Demand

  Forever, Vision, Moments

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• A photographer looks at everything, which is why he must look from beginning to end. Face the subject head-on, stay fixed, turn the entire body into an eye and face the world.

  Shomei Tomatsu

  Eye, Looks, World

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• The lover of photography is fascinated both by the instant and by the past. The moment captured in the image is of near-zero duration and is located in a ever-receding then. At the same time, the spectator's now, the moment of looking at the image, has no fixed duration. It can be extended as long as fascination lasts and endlessly reiterated as long as curiosity returns.

  Peter Wollen

  Photography, Zero, Past

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