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Business

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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

Rena, Peter

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Collins, Nathan

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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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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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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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Forbes, B. C.