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Business

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

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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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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

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

Hawken, Paul

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

David Letterman

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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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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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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.

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Warren Buffett

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Dane, Frank

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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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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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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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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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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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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.