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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

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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

Wang, An

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

Proverb, German

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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

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

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

Barzan, Gerald

10.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

11.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Kiam, Victor

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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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

Aldus Manutius

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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 chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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

Hawken, Paul

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Patterson, John H.

28.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

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

David Letterman

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

40.

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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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Ogilvy, David

43.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

John Cleese

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

46.

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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Branson, Richard

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