Business Quotes - Page 27

• The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance.

  Debbi Fields

  Successful, Entrepreneur, Important

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• Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Full Text of Governor Ikpeazu’s Inaugural Speech". dailypost.ng. May 30, 2015.

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• I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Family, Happiness

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

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• Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Dream, Lunch, Track

  Interview with Kris Herbst for Internet World, www.w3.org. June 1994.

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• Being an entrepreneur isn't really about starting a business. It's a way of looking at the world: seeing opportunity where others see obstacles, taking risks when others take refuge.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Opportunity, Entrepreneur, Risk

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• I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality

  Harold Geneen

  Leadership, Reality, Thinking

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• There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

  Andy Grove

  Missing You, Next, Levels

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  If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

  "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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  The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Inspirational, Morning, Young Entrepreneurs

  "Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg -- Insights For Entrepreneurs" by Steve Tobak, www.cbsnews.com. October 31, 2011.

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• If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

  John Cleese

  Teamwork, Fun, Humor

  "Best New Games" by Dale N. LeFevre, (p. 9), 2002.

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• Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Inspirational, Loyal Customers, Great Customer Service

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• On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.

  Satoru Iwata

  Heart, Games, Mind

  "Nintendo CEO Iwata: 'In My Heart I Am A Gamer'". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. July 13, 2015.

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• How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group.

  John Harvey-Jones

  Leadership, Winning, People

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• Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

  Howard Aiken

  Life And Love, Congratulations, Humorous

  "A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus" by Eric A. Weiss, (p. 404), 1988.

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• I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press

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• Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

  Peter Drucker

  Life, Wise, Time

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker (2001). “The Essential Drucker: Selections from the Management Works of Peter F. Drucker”, Routledge

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• If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely does a good idea interrupt you

  Jim Rohn

  Motivation, Ideas, Wish

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 17, 2016

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• Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Essays "Circles" (1841)

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• Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Wise, Funny Inspirational

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• I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

  John Cleese

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Hatred

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

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• Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Success, Running

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 24, 2015

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• An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Funny, Encouraging, Education

  Commencement address at Columbia University

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• If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

  J. Paul Getty

  Money, Funny Inspirational, Motivation

  "he Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing". Book by Pat Dorsey & ‎Joe Mansueto, p. 234, 2003.

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• Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

  Andy Grove

  Success, Fear, Failure

  "Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth". Book by Robert E Litan and William Baumol, p. 228, 2007.

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• I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

  Lee Iacocca

  Regret, Crazy, Moving

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