Business Quotes - Page 31

• Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Motivational, Hilarious

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• Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.97, Chartwell

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• The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services.

  Brian Tracy

  Success, Simple, Essence

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• The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.

  Philip Caldwell

  Motivational, Father, Team

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• People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year". Book by Norman Vincent Peale. Entry for April 13, 1993.

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• If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.

  Ross Perot

  Leadership, Snakes, Political

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• There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

  Laurence J. Peter

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

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• For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy.

  Bill O'Reilly

  People, Giving, Choices

  "Sample Chapter of The O'Reilly Factor". Excerpt from "The O'Reilly Factor: The Good, the Bad, & the Completely Ridiculous in American Life", www.foxnews.com. April 05, 2001.

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• The customer is always right.

  Harry Gordon Selfridge

  Customers

  Harry Gordon Selfridge (2013). “Mr. Selfridge's Romance of Commerce: An Abridged Version of the Classic Text on Business and Life”, p.3, Adams Media

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• To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Integrity, Thinking, Discipline

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  Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.6, Lulu.com

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  The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

  Walter Wriston

  Blow, Organization, Competition

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• This morning did you wake up to an alarm clock or an opportunity clock?

  Zig Ziglar

  Morning, Opportunity, Entrepreneur

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• The mark of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems, its whether it has the same problems it had last year.

  John Foster Dulles

  Success, Organization, Years

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• If tomorrow, women woke up and decided they really liked their bodies, just think how many industries would go out of business.

  Gail Dines

  Beauty, Women, Acceptance

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• Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Insperational

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• Be daring. Be first. Be different.

  Anita Roddick

  Individuality, Different, Firsts

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• The NBA (National Basketball Association) is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

  Mark Cuban

  Basketball, Nba, Association

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• When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Hard Work, Starting Up, Next Week

  "Mina Bekheet - Cofounder of Oxford Biotech". Enterprising Oxford interview, www.eship.ox.ac.uk.

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• Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

  Walter Scott

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

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• Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Goal, Action, Thee

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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