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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Friendship is something that is cultivated.

Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking; you can't buy friendships.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

The best relationships develop out of friendships.

John D. Rockefeller said that he found friendships based on business to be far more long lasting and profitable than the reverse. I think there's something to that. A company can end up being very Confucian, where the good of the individual is subjugated to the good of the whole.

Friendships are among the most fundamental of human needs.