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Kemsley
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Budget Every Item Until Truth Surfaces, Hard Selling Against British Snobbery, Never Idle Capital Never Unused Credit
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men now felt as if they had come of age. I have always known that other men could run a business as well as I could, perhaps better, so long as the figures and the forecasts came to me. I have never gone about worrying…
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"men now felt as if they had come of age. I have always known that other men could run a business as well as I could, perhaps better, so long as the figures and the forecasts came to me. I have never gone about worrying over what someone might be doing to my business, unless I found something that looked wrong, and that always comes out in the figures. Now I was pleased to let Kemsley's executive directors get on with it, while I began to figure what would improve the company and what we should do next. I had time to do some figuring on the backs of envelopes."
After I Was Sixty - A Chapter of Autobiography
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Budget Every Item Until Truth SurfacesHard Selling Against British SnobberyNever Idle Capital Never Unused CreditSimplicity as Anti-Phoniness DoctrineGregariousness as Deal PipelineFigures on the Back of an EnvelopeOffer to Buy Every Newspaper in the RoomRestlessness as Anti-Stagnation EngineTrust Executives Then Watch the NumbersExperience Compounds Like InterestSubconscious as Decision ComputerCross-Fertilize Cash Flows Across Seasons