Business Quotes - Page 2

• Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Motivational, Success, Attitude

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• Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

  Zig Ziglar

  Success, Character, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 23, 2012

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• If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.

  Zig Ziglar

  Success, Wise, Home

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Aug 08, 2014

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• Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

  William Arthur Ward

  Success, Positivity, Achievement

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• The next thing to be said about what long-range planning is not, is that it does not deal with future decisions. It deals with the futurity of present decisions. Decisions exist only in the present. The question that faces the long-range planner is not what we should do tomorrow.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Future, Long

  "Technology, Management and Society".

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• It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Thinking, Greed

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• I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Success, Dream, Encouragement

  "The Queen of Daytime TV". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 25, 1991.

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• My experience working in the Grameen Bank has given me faith; an unshakable faith in the creativity of human beings. It leads me to believe that humans are not born to suffer the misery of hunger and poverty. They suffer now as they did in the past because we turn our heads away from this issue.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Believe, Creativity, Past

  Muhammad Yunus (2003). “Banker to the Poor: The Story of the Grameen Bank”, p.11, Aurum Press Limited

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• We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact that we will always have poor people around us. So we have had poor people around us. If we had believed that poverty is unacceptable to us, and that it should not belong to a civilized society, we would have created appropriate institutions and policies to create a poverty-free world.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Believe, People, World

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• The moment you make passive income and portfolio income a part of your life, your life will change. Those words will become flesh.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Rich Life, Inspire

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• Start small and dream big.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

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• The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company.

  Masaaki Imai

  Kaizen, Messages, Improvement

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• Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Inspirational, Leadership, Thinking

  "Why Aren’t You Delegating?" by Amy Gallo, hbr.org. July 26, 2012.

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• American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?

  Diane Ravitch

  Education, School, Ideas

  Diane Ravitch (2016). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.236, Basic Books

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• A good portfolio is more than a long list of good stocks and bonds. It is a balanced whole, providing the investor with protections and opportunities with respect to a wide range of contingencies.

  Harry Markowitz

  Opportunity, Long, Lists

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• The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

  Faye Wattleton

  Leadership, Storm, Safe

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• I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.

  Lawrence Bossidy

  Relationship, People, Entrepreneur

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• Excuses are useless. Results are priceless.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Entrepreneur, Useless, Priceless

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• There are only two ways to establish competitive advantage: do things better than others or do them differently.

  Karl Albrecht

  Two, Entrepreneur, Competition

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• Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.

  Sean Parker

  Running, Starting Up, Glasses

  "Sean Parker: 'Now Is The Most Toxic Time Ever In Silicon Valley'" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. October 02, 2012.

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• We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both

  Paul Polman

  Choices, Growth, Sustainability

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• There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

  Joseph Addison

  Decision Making

  'The Drummer' (1716) act 5, sc. 1

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• EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them.

  Peter Thiel

  Learning, Zuckerberg, Entrepreneur

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Books Summary: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.2, Best Books on

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• You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Motivational, Success

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

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• I would like to be the first man in the gym business to throw out my scale. If you don't like what you see in the mirror, what difference does it make what the scale says?

  Vince Gironda

  Workout, Love Yourself, Bodybuilding

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