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Business

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

10.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

11.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

12.

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

13.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

18.

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

19.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

20.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

21.

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

22.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

25.

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

26.

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

27.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

28.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

29.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

30.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

31.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

34.

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

35.

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

36.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

37.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

38.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

39.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

40.

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

47.

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

48.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

49.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin