Business Quotes - Page 35

• As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Giving, People, Stories

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• I do believe that it is extremely important that each one of us is a participant in life and what's going on around us rather than being a spectator to it and if you do that, if you participate in the world, in your community, your school, your company, or your country, whatever.. they you will be useful and hopefully leave the planet a little better.

  Janet Holmes a Court

  Life, Country, Encouragement

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• A business must have a conscience as well as a counting house.

  Montague Burton

  Witty, House, Counting

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• Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

  Ordway Tead

  Leadership, Long, People

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• Most processes leave out the stuff no one wants to talk about: magic, intuition and leaps of faith.

  Michael Bierut

  Magic, Intuition, Leap Of Faith

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• Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer.

  Lester Maddox

  Honesty, Should, Consumers

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• The key to success for everything in business, science and technology is never to follow the others.

  Masaru Ibuka

  Inspirational, Success, Science

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• What is the most overrated skill for an entrepreneur? The most overrated skill is skill. Luck is more important. The entrepreneur gets credit for being this genius, when really he was just at the right place at the right time.

  Ken Hendricks

  Skills, Entrepreneur, Luck

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• Remember the Three Princes of Serendip who went out looking for treasure? They didn't find what they were looking for, but they kept finding things just as valuable. That's serendipity, and our business [drugs] is full of it.

  George W. Bush

  Science, Medicine, Drug

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• It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong

  George Soros

  Important, Saving, Investing

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• A lot of times in this business, we are taking advantage of hot times in our career to do a lot of TV and a lot of radio and that sort of thing, and George is able to be so humble that he can get away with not doing those things.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Humble, Careers, Hot

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• I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

  Sydney Biddle Barrows

  Kindness, Integrity, Crime

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• Honor is better than honors.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Integrity, Honor, Society

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• In business for yourself, not by yourself.

  William James

  Inspirational, Philosophical

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• What I know for sure is that behind every catastrophe, there are great lessons to be learned. Among the many that we as a country need to get is that as long as we play the "us and them" game, we don't evolve as people, as a nation, as a planet.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Success, Country, Learning

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• Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production - only to produce a race of bed-wetters!

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Ocean, Race, Years

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Inspirational, Helping, Mice

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• Work is, after all, not a busy running back and forth in established grooves, though that is the essence of our modern business and academic life, but the supreme energy and disciplined curiosity required to cut new grooves.

  Hugh Nibley

  Life, Running, Work

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• You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

  Gerald Brenan

  Hurt, Knowledge, Men

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• Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Senior, Bridges, Juniors

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• If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong either with you or with your business.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Busy, Busy Life, Ifs

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• Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

  David Ogilvy

  Thinking, Honest, Advertising

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• Karl Rove described Obama as "the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini, and making snide comments about everyone who passes by." Unlike George Bush, who's the guy at the country club who makes snide comments, and then passes out. Now this characterization, of course, was something Mr. Rove just completely pulled out of his bulbous, gelatinous a$$, but remember this is America, a land where people believe anything they hear.

  Bill Maher

  Beautiful, Country, Believe

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• The self-anointed media elite among us believe, somewhat self-servingly, that not only the act, or process of making a profit is positively sinister, but also that the very desire to do so is.

  Lachlan Murdoch

  Believe, Self, Media

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