Business Quotes - Page 19

• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

  Bill Gates

  Leadership, Motivation, Educational

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

  B. C. Forbes

  Real, Riches, Possessed

  B. C. Forbes (2005). “Keys to Success”, p.3, Lulu.com

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• You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations". Book by William S. Walsh, 1951.

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• In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

  Bill Gates

  Running, Money, Funny Inspirational

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• Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Intellectual, Bananas

  Attributed to Bill Gates in "The Wall Street Journal", December 29, 2011.

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• This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Money

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• Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

  J. Paul Getty

  Change, Risk, Insightful

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• If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Motivational, Family

  Prophet (1923) "On Work"

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• I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work.

  Philip Green

  Home, Commitment, People

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• It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.

  Matthew Henry

  Hands, Firsts, Fit

  Matthew Henry “An Exposition of the New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents ...”

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• Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Appreciation

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.69, Mango Media Inc.

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• Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

  Sam Ewing

  Success, Simple, People

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• To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

  Pierre Corneille

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.

  Kin Hubbard

  Government, Democracy, Would Be

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• A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.

  Paul Dickson

  Money, Home, Office

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• It has taken more than a hundred scientists two years to find out how to make the product in question; I have been given thirty days to create its personality and plan its launching. If I do my job well, I shall contribute as much as the hundred scientists to the success of this product.

  David Ogilvy

  Jobs, Taken, Years

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

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• The Forgotten Man is delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school, reading his newspaper, and cheering for the politician of his admiration, but he is the only one for whom there is no provision in the great scramble and the big divide. Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays — but he always pays — yes, above all, he pays.

  William Graham Sumner

  Life, Family, Prayer

  "The Forgotten Man and Other Essays".

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• Design isn't just about making things beautiful; it's also about making things work beautifully.

  Roger Martin

  Beautiful, Work, Design

  Roger Martin (2013). “Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage”, p.30, Harvard Business Press

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• In my 35 years in business I have always trusted my emotions. I have always believed that by touching emotion you get the best people to work with you, the best clients to inspire you, the best partners and most devoted customers.

  Kevin Roberts

  Inspirational, Believe, Emotional

  Kevin Roberts (2005). “Lovemarks: the future beyond brands”, p.38, powerHouse Books

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• Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.

  Bernard Baruch

  Liars, Trying, Done

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1970). “Baruch: My own story”

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• The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

  Irving Berlin

  Inspirational, Success, Motivational Sports

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

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• Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Character, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.148, Harvard University Press

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• The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.

  Mitt Romney

  Moving, Government, Hands

  "Commentary: Stimulate the economy, not government" by Mitt Romney, www.cnn.com. February 6, 2009.

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• There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

  Colonel Sanders

  Death, Humorous, Men

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

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• You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?

  W. Clement Stone

  Life, Motivational, Success

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