Business Quotes - Page 15

• Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Artist, House, Poultry

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves.

  Herman Cain

  Softball, Sports, Fun

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• The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

  Ralph Nader

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.

  David Ogilvy

  Testing Yourself, Advertising, Advertisement Negative

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

  James Dewar

  Funny, Education, Attitude

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• If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.

  Kurt Lewin

  Change, Understanding, Trying

  Attributed in "Problems of Theoretical Psychology - ISTP 1995" by Charles W. Tolman, (p. 31), 1996.

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• It has become dramatically clear that the foundation of corporate integrity is personal integrity.

  Samuel DiPiazza

  Integrity, Foundation, Clear

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• Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does.

  Peter Drucker

  Organization, Doe, Abandonment

  Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.123, Harvard Business Review Press

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• When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

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• In business, I've discovered that my purpose is to do my best to my utmost ability every day. That's my standard. I learned early in my life that I had high standards.

  Donald Trump

  Life, Purpose, High Standards

  Donald Trump (2010). “Think Like a Champion: An Informal Education In Business and Life”, p.148, Vanguard Press

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• Government caters to those screaming the loudest, regardless of what they're screaming about. In business, it's exactly the opposite! You invest more in the most successful departments, and less in those that aren't performing.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Successful, Government, Opposites

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• Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Change, Organization, Want

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

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• Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Greed, Innovation

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• The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

  J. Paul Getty

  Funny, Humor, Rights

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• In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Leadership, Perseverance, Real

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• I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

  Barry Goldwater

  Stupid, Men, Thinking

  Attributed to Barry Goldwater in: Conference Board, Across the board. Vol. 15. p. 74, 1978.

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• The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Leadership, Blow, Essence

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• In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Independent, Criticism

  Newsweek, December 24, 1973.

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• The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

  John F. Kennedy

  Trust, Peace, Fear

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.471, Best Books on

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• It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

  Charles Kettering

  Life, Tattoo, Art

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• The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.

  John Naisbitt

  Inspiring, Success, Motivation

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• The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.

  Bette Midler

  Funny, Success, Jealousy

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• People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.

  Benjamin Franklin

  People, Motivational Business, Convinced

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• The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Inspirational, People, Way

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• The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

  Blaine Lee Pardoe

  Leadership, Stars, Inspiration

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