Bad Business Quotes

• A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

  "Mansfield News Journal" Newspaper, August 3, 1965.

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• Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are no bad business and investment opportunities, but there are bad entrepreneurs and investors.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Entrepreneur

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• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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• There are no bad business and investment opportunities, but there are bad entrepreneurs and investors. To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game. The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Dream, Disappointment, Successful

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• Hurried business is bad business.

  Patrick deWitt

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.9, Granta Books

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• Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it's probably a bad business in which to invest.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Advertising, Investment, Company

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• When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing, Market Risk

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.151, John Wiley & Sons

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• If you think you can't, you're right.

  Carol Bartz

  Inspirational, Positive, Smart

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• Slavery was incredibly prosperous for some people, at that time. It was not a bad business plan, but it was terrible and inhumane. But as a business it worked.

  Chuck D

  People, Slavery, Terrible

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I got screwed over in some bad business deals, but as long as I focused on those past problems, I couldn't move forward. I had to let all of that go and forgive everyone and everything first.

  Steve Pavlina

  Money, Moving Forward, Past

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• I'm horrible with money. I make bad business decisions every hour of the day.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Decision, Hours, Horrible

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them a man stoop down and pick up something from the ground, look at it, and put it away in his pocket. The friend said to the devil, "What did that man pick up?" "He picked up a piece of the truth," said the devil. "That is a very bad business for you, then," said his friend. "Oh, not at all," the devil replied, "I am going to help him organize it."

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Success is not necessarily about connections, or cutting corners, or chamba - the three Cs of bad business. Call it trite, but believe me: success can be achieved through hard work, frugality, integrity, responsiveness to change, and most of all, boldness to dream.

  John Gokongwei

  Dream, Business, Integrity

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• It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Gambling, Riches, Tickets

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1832). “Ladies' Magazine and Literary Gazette”, p.459

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• Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Money, War, Revolution

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• Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.

  Naveen Jain

  Giving, Vines, Philanthropy

  FaceBook post by Naveen Jain from Nov 12, 2015

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• The boom is called good business, prosperity, and upswing. Its unavoidable aftermath, the readjustment of conditions to the real data of the market, is called crisis, slump, bad business, depression.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Real, Data, Slumps

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• Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.

  James Cook

  Decision, Causes, Taxes

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• Economists' unanimity that bad business is ahead is the most reassuring news possible. It's very unlikely that this will be the one time they're right.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Business, News, Reassuring

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• Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It's bad business, and it's bad policy. But we act as if it can't be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.

  Melinda Gates

  Change, Education, School

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• Buying a share of a good business is better than buying a share of a bad business. One way to do this is to purchase a business that can invest its own money at high rates of return rather than purchasing a business that can only invest at lower ones. In other words, businesses that earn a high return on capital are better than businesses that earn a low return on capital.

  Joel Osteen

  Return, Way, Buying

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• There is no advantage getting older. You don't get smarter, you don't get wiser, you don't get more mellow, you don't get more kindly, nothing good happens. Your back hurts more, you get more indigestion, your eyesight isn't as good, you need a hearing aid. It's a bad business getting old and I would advise you not to do it if you can avoid it. It doesn't have a romantic quality.

  Woody Allen

  Hurt, Getting Older, Quality

  "Woody Allen: 'The Whole Thing Is Tragic'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. July 20, 2012.

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• When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere. Sam Spade

  Dashiell Hammett

  Men, Organization, Differences

  The Maltese Falcon ch. 20 (1930)

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