Business Quotes - Page 20

• Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man". Book by William Hermanns, p. 143, 1983.

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• You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Scratches, News, Easy

  Thomas J. Watson, Peter Petre (2013). “Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond”, p.386, Bantam

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• Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspiration, Perspiration

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• The group will not prosper if the leader grabs the lion's share of the credit for the good work that has been done.

  Laozi

  Leadership, Groups, Credit

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• WORK ON YOUR STORY! He/she who has the best story wins! In life! In business! The White House!

  Tom Peters

  Winning, White, House

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• Enthusiasm for conservation can be fashioned into a nasty weapon for those who dislike business on general principles.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Money, Principles, Weapons

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• Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

  James Stewart

  Management, Economics, Treats

  "The Ultimate Writer's Guide to Hollywood" by Skip Press, (p. 199), 2004.

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• We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.

  Michael Eisner

  Art, Money, History

  "Michael Eisner: Monster, inc". www.independent.co.uk. December 07, 2003.

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• It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

  Martin Van Buren

  Jobs, Service Culture, Presidential

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  There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Xenophobia, Ignorance, Stupidity

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, W. B. Rönnfeldt (1898*). “Goethe's Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims”

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• Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it." -

  Seth Godin

  Leadership, Winning, Race

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• The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

  James Broughton

  Motivational, Leadership, Vision

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• The only way around is through.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

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• Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

  Scott McNealy

  Giving, Ruins, Study

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• Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.

  Caterina Fake

  Entrepreneur, Design, Important

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• Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Work, Competition, Stealing

  Ambrose Bierce, Brian St. Pierre (1987). “The Devil's advocate: an Ambrose Bierce reader”, Chronicle Books (CA)

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• The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Soul, Curls, Merchandise

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.790, Delphi Classics

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• Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

  Gore Vidal

  Useless Stuff, Time Management, Kaizen

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• The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.70, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Levels, Hierarchy, Incompetence

  The Peter Principle ch. 1 (1969)

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• You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.

  Les Brown

  Motivational, Success, Journey

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• Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Sacrifice, Men, Self

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• The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Doe, Literature, Demand

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