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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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

Ogilvy, David

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

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

Armour, P. D.

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

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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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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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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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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.

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Dickens, Charles

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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Wang, An

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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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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

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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.