Business Quotes - Page 21

• The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Caves, Architecture

  "Culture Is Our Business". Book by Marshall McLuhan, 1970.

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• Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Journey, Marketing

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• Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Hands, Tyrants, Deception

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• When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Curves, Want, Graphs

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• Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

  John Naisbitt

  Vision, Firsts, Planning

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• What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.

  David Ogilvy

  Organization, Important, Advertising

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• It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

  Theodore Parker

  Taken, Men, Pressure

  Theodore Parker (1865). “Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man”, p.85

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• An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Funny, Future, Sarcasm

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• If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Life, Success, Women

  "Invest in Life Experiences" by Sean Kim, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2014.

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• The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

  Plautus

  Men, Venture, Rich

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• Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

  Colin Powell

  Military, Political, Ego

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• I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.

  Elvis Presley

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Communication

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• I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

  Bill Rancic

  Successful, Thinking, Innovation

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• I invent nothing, I rediscover.

  Auguste Rodin

  Life, Beautiful, Art

  "Auguste Rodin: The Man, His Ideas, His Works". Book by Camille Mauclair (p. 60-61), 1905.

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• Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Jun 6, 2016

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• Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere.

  Paul Ryan

  Hair, Cities, Knowing

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

  William Shakespeare

  Good Luck, Best Of Luck, Boat

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.107, Palgrave Macmillan

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• If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Money, Saving, Management

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• Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Money, Generosity, Finance

  Ivan Roe, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1953). “Shelley, the last phase”

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• It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

  Adam Smith

  Invisible Hand, Government, Liberty

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 1, bk. 1, ch. 2 (1776)

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• Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

  Thomas Sowell

  Requirements, Produce, Ingenuity

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 8, 2012.

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• When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

  Joseph Stalin

  High Heels, Rope, Use

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• It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  "Born to Run: Origins of the Political Career". Book by Ronald Keith Gaddie, p. 119, 2003.

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• The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Political, Bedroom, States

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