Business Quotes - Page 23

• Business is not financial science, it's about trading.. buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.

  Anita Roddick

  Creativity, Ideas, Creating

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• The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, People, Spinning

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1097, Delphi Classics

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• Good design can't fix broken business models.

  Jeffrey Veen

  Broken, Design, Models

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• Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by.

  David Ogilvy

  Lying, Writing, Thinking

  "Confessions of an Advertising Man". Book by David Ogilvy, 1963.

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• What helps people, helps business.

  Leo Burnett

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.

  Seth Godin

  Acceptance, Perfect, Needs

  Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.46, Penguin

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• The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

  Denis Healey

  Wall, Differences, Tax Evasion

  "Holes in the Net". www.economist.com. May 04, 2006.

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• I think one of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually they will be an important part of this new civilization. Some retail groups are introducing e-commerce and think that the bricks are no longer useful. But they will continue to be important.

  Carlos Slim

  Mistake, Technology, Thinking

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• What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

  Epictetus

  Philosophy, Learning, Conceited

  "Discourses". Book by Epictetus. Book II, Chapter 17,

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• The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you

  Charles Dickens

  Clever, Men, Literature

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• In business, I loved cars. I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning. Only in America can you decide to get a good education and pursue what you like.

  Lee Iacocca

  Morning, Jobs, Passion

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• Business is like sex. When it's good, it's very, very good; when it's not so good, it's still good.

  George Katona

  Sex, Very Good, Stills

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• Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!

  George William Curtis

  Dream, Hard Times, Ifs

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• Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.

  Peter Drucker

  Frustration, Important, Purpose

  Peter F. Drucker (2009). “The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• You cannot innovate by copying.

  Larry Ellison

  Copying

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• Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper.

  Kazuo Inamori

  Opportunity, Thinking, Doors

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• Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

  Harold Geneen

  Men, Organization, Two

  "Hospital Turnarounds: Lessons in Leadership". Book by Terence F. Moore, p. 100, 1999.

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• In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that, the rest is easy.

  George Burns

  Honesty, Keys, Fake

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• We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

  James E. Burke

  Inspirational, Success, Risk

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• Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.

  Joseph Conrad

  Greatness, Men, Quality

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.362, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.

  Edward de Bono

  Inspirational, Motivational, Ingredients

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• Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

  Marva Collins

  Motivational Sports, Excellence, Habit

  Marva Collins (1992). “Ordinary Children, Extraordinary Teachers”, p.114, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Loyal Customers

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