Business Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 09, 2013

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• If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

  Ray Kroc

  Mcdonalds, Entrepreneur, Risk

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

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• To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

  Tony Dorsett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Tony Dorsett, Harvey Frommer (1989). “Running tough: memoirs of a football maverick”, Doubleday Books

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

  Steve Jobs

  Humorous, Small Jobs, Entrepreneur

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.68, Prabhat Prakashan

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  If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

  Theodore Isaac Rubin

  Success, Encouragement, Determination

  Theodore Isaac Rubin (1983). “One to one: understanding personal relationships”, Viking Pr

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• Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

  Demosthenes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Good Luck

  "Dictionary of Quotations (Classical)" by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, (p. 511), 1897.

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• Business is a combination of war and sport.

  Andre Maurois

  Sports, War, Combination

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• Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools - but they must be kept to a minimum.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Confidence, Self, Giving

  "The Fast Company Interview: Jeff Immelt". Interview with John R. Byrne, www.fastcompany.com. July 1, 2005.

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• No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  War, Philosophical, Enemy

  "The Art of War" by Niccolo Machiavelli, Book 7, as translated by Neal Wood (1965), 1520.

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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

  Life, Success, Fun

  Richard Branson (1999). “Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way”, Crown Business

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• Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 27, 2016

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• Hire character. Train skill.

  Peter Schutz

  Character, Skills, Entrepreneur

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• Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison". Book by Deborah Headstrom-Page, 2007.

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• To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

  Peter McWilliams

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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  I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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  Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

  Babe Ruth

  Motivational, Inspiring, Running

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• The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Debtors, Slave, Creditors

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.272, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.

  Ralph Nader

  Thinking, Meals, Corporations

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• Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Vince Lombardi, George L. Flynn (1973). “Vince Lombardi on football”

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