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Business

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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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.

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

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

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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

Proverb, German

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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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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.

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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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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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

David Letterman

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

Iacocca, Lee

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Proverb, American

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

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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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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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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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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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Galvin, Robert

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Khrushchev, Nikita