Filling Stations are the True Agents of Decentralization

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Keep your eye on the filling station, it is the true agent of decentralization. – Frank Lloyd Wright

Regorganization is the permanent codition of a vigorous organization. – Roy L. Ash

Order marches with weighty and measure strides, disorder is always in a hurry. – Napoleon Bonaparte

A good organization tends to simplicity: and, when a wise method is proposed, people are ready to say how self-evident it is. But, without the few men who perceive these self-evident things, the business of the world would go on even worse than it does. – Sir Arthur Helps

Major decisions usually require predictions about the future. – Harry A. Bullis

When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make the decision. – Lucius, Second Lord Falkland

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution. – Alvin Toffler

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An Arch Never Sleeps

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Q: Why is the stock market like an oven?


A: They can both be self-cleaning. – anonymous



Artificial inflation of stocks must be considered a crime as serious as counterfeiting, which it closely resembles. – Andrew Maurois



Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorb consolidation and profits at the expense of others. – Franklin Delano Roosevelt



A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines. – Frank Lloyd Wright



To build is to be robbed. – Samuel Johnson



An arch never sleeps. – Hindu proverb



Good architecture lets nature in. – Mario Pei

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It's Possible to Own Too Much

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can get with a kind word. – Al Capone

Drive thy business or it will drive thee. - Benjamin Franklin

It’s possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never sure. – Lee Sagall

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run. – Abraham Lincoln

Every organization has a Siberia. – Warren G. Bennis

The doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only davise his client to plant vines. – Frank Lloyd Wright

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge. – John Naisbitt