Business Quotes - Page 25

• If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Wish, Customers, Ifs

  M. FREDERIC BASTIAT (1870). “SOPHISMS OF THE PROTECTIONISTS.”, p.222

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• The rushed existence into which industrialized, commercialized man has precipitated himself is actually a good example of an inexpedient development caused entirely by competition between members of the same species. Human beings of today are attacked by so-called manager diseases, high blood pressure, renal atrophy, gastric ulcers, and torturing neuroses: they succumb to barbarism because they have no more time for cultural interests.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Men, Blood, Competition

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• I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Men, Contact, Business Man

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• I do not dislike but I certainly have no especial respect or admiration for and no trust in, the typical big moneyed men of my country. I do not regard them as furnishing sound opinion as respects either foreign or domestic business.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Men, No Trust

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• As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel.

  Peter Drucker

  Ideas, People, Remember

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• Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Taken, Artist, Favour

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• The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

  David Ricardo

  Wages, Farming, Economics

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.68

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• In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Success, Military, Preparation

  Quoted in Richard Nixon, Six Crises (1962)

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• Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Young Entrepreneurs

  FaceBook post by Richard Branson from May 09, 2016

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• Business is more exciting than any game.

  Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

  Games, Entrepreneur, Exciting

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• If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

  Jeff Bezos

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Online Extra: Jeff Bezos on Word-of-Mouth Power". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. August 2, 2004.

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• Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women". Book by Armand Eisen (p. 15), 1992.

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• I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

  Alan Greenspan

  Success, Honesty, Greatness

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• A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Clients, Problem, Units

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2001). “The Sign of the Four; Or, the Problem of the Sholtos”, p.11, iUniverse

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• Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Motivational

  Letter to Heinrich Zangger (1917), as quoted in "Albert Einstein: A Biography" by Albrecht Fölsing, (p. 399), 1997.

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• Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

  Evan Esar

  Lying, Believe, Science

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• I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.

  Debbi Fields

  Jobs, Feel Good, Joy

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• The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Awards, Achievement, Salary

  Annals of an Abiding Liberal ch. 6 (1979)

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• It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Future, Yankees

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• Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Winning, Games, Competition

  Sidney Sheldon (2007). “Master of the Game; If Tomorrow Comes”

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• Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Purpose

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1938). “The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci”

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• The most important thing in business is a persona, Nico,' he was fond of saying. 'People want to know immediately what they're dealing with. And when they think about you, you've got to stand out in their minds--like one of those characters in a novel.

  Candace Bushnell

  Character, Thinking, People

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• He is very imprudent, a dog; he never makes it his business to inquire whether you are in the right or the wrong, never asks whether you are rich or poor, silly or wise, sinner or saint. You are his pal. That is enough for him.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Friendship, Wise, Dog

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.69, Jerome K. Jerome

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• You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.41, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

  George Nelson

  Simple, Hands, Ideas

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