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  The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfulls.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Pain, Doubt, Remember

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• Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.

  John Harvey-Jones

  Depression, Fun, Nice

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• Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Spiritual, Sides, Advertising

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• You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

  Norman Douglas

  Advertising, Nigeria Independence, Idealism

  SouthWind ch. 7 (1917)

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• We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough... we're only paid for breakthroughs.

  Bill Gates

  Come Up, Breakthrough, Paid

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• I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

  Walter Chrysler

  Life, Motivational, Sorry

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• Sell practical, tested merchandise at a reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings - and they will always come back.

  Leon Leonwood Bean

  Service Culture, Profit, Treats

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• The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

  Jack Anderson

  Dark, Government, Political

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

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• The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."

  John W. Gardner

  Men, Cynic, One Man

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• Like squirrels, the best in every business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilities - they flat out trust their skills, which is why we call this high-performance state of mind the "Trusting Mindset."

  John Eliot

  Skills, Squirrels, Achievement

  John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.26, Diversion Books

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• The best players in any high-stakes field - business, entertainment, law, surgery, as well as sport - recognize that pressure occurs at the moments when meaningful accomplishment is possible. In fact, that is the reason why performers perform: for the opportunity to tackle challenges head on, to do something significant, to demonstrate what their hard work and talent can produce.

  John Eliot

  Success, Meaningful, Sports

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• The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Success, Ambition, Men

  John D. Rockefeller (2003). “Random Reminiscences of Men and Events”, p.133, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Night, Waiting, Pay

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• I'm a firm believer that to really understand a business takes years, not months. As an investment analyst you think you understand a business from the outside, but the reality is that, once you are inside, you can go on learning for five or ten years.

  Chris Corrigan

  Reality, Thinking, Years

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• The message from Wal-Mart today to the rest of the business community is there need not be any conflict between the environment and the economy. We will find the way not only to reconcile (those), but to find new profits and new opportunities as we do the right thing.

  Al Gore

  Opportunity, Community, Needs

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• Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Positive, Want

  "Geek mythology and Nikola Tesla" by Rebekah Higgitt, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2012.

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• Advertising is the life of trade.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Advertising, Trade

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• Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Witty, Perseverance

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  The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Hope

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.4

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• The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

  Henry Ford

  Money, Funny Inspirational, Entrepreneur

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• Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.

  John Wanamaker

  Money, Marketing, Half

  "Confessions of an Advertising Man". Book by David Ogilvy, Chapter 3, 1963.

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• Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.

  Peter Drucker

  Success, Creativity, Two

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.67, Routledge

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• I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

  Frank Winfield Woolworth

  People, Marketing, World

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• More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

  Rose Kennedy

  Educational, Reality, Years

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