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“Business is a combination of war and
sport.“
- André Maurois
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“The absolute fundamental aim is to
make money out of satisfying customers.”
-John Egan
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“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of
preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
-Colin Powell
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“The secret of business is to know something that nobody
else knows.”
-Aristotle Onassis
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“I don't pay good wages because I have a lot
of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.”
-Robert
Bosch
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“Competition brings out the best in products
and the worst in man.”
- Anonymous.
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“The executive exists to make sensible
exceptions to general rules.”
-Elting E.
Morison
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“Your most unhappy customers are your
greatest source of learning.
-Bill Gates
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“The majority of men meet with failure because of their
lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which
fail.”
-Napoleon Hill
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“Business is a game,
played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you
want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.”
-Sidney Sheldon |
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“I think that there is nothing, not
even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than
this incessant business.”
-Henry
David Thoreau
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“The purpose of business
is to create and keep a customer.”
-Peter F. Drucker |
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“In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins:
cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.”
-Harold S. Geneen
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“You can’t tax business.
Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.”
-Ronald
Reagan
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“Every young man would do well to remember that all
successful business stands on the foundation of morality.”
-Henry Ward Beecher
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“It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that
counts.”
-Will Rogers
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“To be successful, you have to have
your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.”
-Thomas Watson, Sr.
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“The superior man understands what is
right; the inferior man understands what will sell.”
-Confucius
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“It is unfortunate we can't buy many
business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think
they are worth.”
-Malcolm
Forbes
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“If you can build a business up big enough, it's
respectable.”
-Will Rogers
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“Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's
money.”
-Peter Drucker
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“If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out
of business.”
-B. C. Forbes
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“Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must
be followed to become an expert in anything.”
-W. Clement Stone
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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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“Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress
by using pretentious jargon.”
-David Ogilvy
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“Whenever you see a
successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
- Peter F. Drucker |
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“Profit in business comes from repeat customers,
customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends
with them.”
-W. Edwards Deming
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“Being trustworthy
requires: Doing the right thing. And doing things right.”
- Don Peppers |
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“About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves
the ends.”
-Herbert Hoover
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“A business has to be
involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.”
-Richard Branson |
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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.”
-Henry R. Luce
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“A farm is a business, and
I ran mine into the ground. The next year it grew back.
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- Jarod Kintz |
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“In business, sir, one has
no friends, only correspondents. ”
-Alexandre Dumas |
“When did it become a problem to be a small businessman
and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?”
-Glenn Beck
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“The gambling known as business looks with austere
disfavor upon the business known as gambling.”
-Ambrose Bierce
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“A business absolutely devoted to service
will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”
- Henry
Ford
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“Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your
ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.”
-Howard Aiken
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“Business can be a source of progressive change.”
-Jerry Greenfield
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“Success or failure in business is caused more by the
mental attitude even than by mental capacities.”
-Walter Scott
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“Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my
pleasure, business.”
-William Wycherley
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