Cutting Corners Quotes

• Cutting corners no doubt makes the job easier for the government, but making the government's job easier is rarely a priority. Preserving the Constitution, fighting off the nibblers and chippers, even nibblers and chippers with good intentions, was once regarded by conservatives as the first duty of the citizen. It still is.

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  Wesley Pruden

  Jobs   Fighting   Cutting  

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• Success is not necessarily about connections, or cutting corners, or chamba - the three Cs of bad business. Call it trite, but believe me: success can be achieved through hard work, frugality, integrity, responsiveness to change, and most of all, boldness to dream.

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  John Gokongwei

  Dream   Business   Integrity  

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• Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.

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  Bernard Malamud

  Cutting   Circles   Experts  

  Bernard Malamud (1984). “The Stories of Bernard Malamud”

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• Never cut corners, or accept anything that's second-rate.

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  Bruce Oldfield

  Cutting   Accepting   Rate  

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• I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives. But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.

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  Alan Greenspan

  Life   Success   Business  

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• As more money flowed through Washington and as Washington's power to regulate our lives grew, opportunities and temptations for graft, influence peddling and cutting corners grew exponentially. Power breeds corruption.

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  Steve Forbes

  Money   Cutting   Power  

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• Never neglect the little things. Never skimp on that extra effort, that additional few minutes, that soft word of praise or thanks, that delivery of the very best that you can do. It does not matter what others think, it is of prime importance, however, what you think about you. You can never do your best, which should always be your trademark, if you are cutting corners and shirking responsibilities. You are special. Act it. Never neglect the little things.

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  Og Mandino

  Responsibility   Cutting   Thinking  

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.102, Bantam

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• I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I'd never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners.

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  John Fogerty

  Cheating   Cutting   Thinking  

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