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- A few short notes on the fictitious Ferengi Rules of Acquisition from Star Trek.
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- Examining the business rules of the Ferengi.
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John D. Rockefeller’s [abridged] rules concerning his business experiences and business principles.
The 19th century American industrialist, John D. Rockefeller, knew that there is no great mystery in business success. The great industrial leaders have told again and again the plain and obvious fact that if you follow good business principles diligently, … Continue reading
A few short notes on the fictitious Ferengi Rules of Acquisition from Star Trek.
The Ferengi’s Rules of Acquisition are a set of fictitious guidelines intended to ensure the profitability of businesses run by members of the alien race known as the Ferengi. In the fictional Star Trek universe, the Rules of Acquisition are … Continue reading
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Examining the business rules of the Ferengi.
Following in age-old literary traditions founded on the parodying of ideas of greed and avarice (from which their comically grotesque origins clearly stem), the Ferengi are a brash, greed-ridden alien race of self-centred individualists—the stunted, gnome-like inhabitants of the fictitious … Continue reading
Deborah Meaden’s [abridged] rules for doing good business.
At the risk of being accused of a bit of underhand intellectual property piracy, possibly up to and including committing international copyright theft of “unique intellectual material” (be it obvious adaptations of topical business adages, old saws or well-known “pearls … Continue reading
The Rules of Business, No. 1 to No. 17.
1st Rule: Before doing anything else look after your own interests first. 2nd Rule: Acquire what matters quickly before it disappears. 3rd Rule: Never risk your own assets except for your own profit. 4th Rule: Profit can … Continue reading
The Rules of Business and what the work is about.
As it is published here in this business-orientated blog, the following text of The Rules of Business is written as, or is intended as being, a concise set of expeditious business rules, maxims, dictums and precepts (the full text of which … Continue reading
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