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Business

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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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

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

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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

Warren Buffett

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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.

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

Forbes, B. C.

11.

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

18.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

21.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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

Dane, Frank

25.

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

28.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

29.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

30.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

31.

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

Proverb, American

32.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

33.

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

Riorio

34.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

35.

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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

Armour, P. D.

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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

40.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

George Ade

42.

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

44.

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

Ford, Henry

45.

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

Barzan, Gerald

46.

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.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

49.

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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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam