Business Quotes - Page 10

• If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

  Ray Kroc

  Inspiring, Success, Motivation

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Get busy living, or get busy dying.

  Stephen King

  Inspirational, Life, Movie

  Different Seasons "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" (1982)

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• Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Haste, Decay, Proud

  Oliver Goldsmith (1871). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller”, p.209

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• The nature of business is swindling.

  August Bebel

  Swindling

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• Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Careers, Banking

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1969). “Ambassador's Journal”

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• People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Differences

  Mary Kay Ash (1995). “Mary Kay, You Can Have it All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur”, Prima Lifestyles

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• Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Leadership, Character, Vision

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• Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Creativity, Management

  In Observer 1 Mar. 1987

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• Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

  Evan Esar

  Definitions, Statistics, Facts

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• The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might and force of habit. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him-and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.

  J. Paul Getty

  Practice, Discipline, Appreciate

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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.

  Sam Walton

  Inspirational, Money, Work

  "2010 BPM and Workflow Handbook" by Layna Fischer, Future Strategies Inc., (p. 178), 2010.

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• If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

  Stephen Covey

  Teamwork, Flower, People

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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  Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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• Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Simple, People, Commerce

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• There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

  Coco Chanel

  Time, Art, Creativity

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• An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

  Fred Allen

  Agency, Confusion, Cute Funny

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• Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

  Warren Buffett

  Funny, Motivation, Learning

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• Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

  Warren Buffett

  Success, Why Not, Investing

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• All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Motivational, New Year

  Albert Camus (2013). “The Myth of Sisyphus”, p.16, Penguin UK

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• Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  "Signs of the Times". Essay by Thomas Carlyle, www.victorianweb.org. 1829.

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• The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Water, Volunteer

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.206

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• The price of greatness is responsibility.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

  Winston Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.292, A&C Black

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• The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

  Confucius

  Money, Philosophical, Men

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Morality, Individual

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• A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

  B. C. Forbes

  Order, Driven, Results

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