Business Quotes - Page 7

• We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

  Jeff Bezos

  Inspirational, Success, Survival Mode

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• I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.

  Richard Branson

  Success, Writing, Order

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• Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

  Edward Gibbon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

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• In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential... it's no different in the financial realm.

  Suze Orman

  Inspirational, Power, Self Improvement

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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• A goal is a dream with a deadline.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Dream, Successful

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, Lulu.com

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• Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, Organization

  "Your Guide to Self-Directed". Book by Daniel Cordoba. p. 197, September 19, 2008.

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• Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Life, Religious, Character

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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  There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

  Colin Powell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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• The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

  Peter Drucker

  Motivational, Loyal Customers, Purpose

  Peter Drucker (2012). “The Frontiers of Management”, p.224, Routledge

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• The essence of good advertising is not to inspire hope, but to create greed.

  Charles Adams

  Essence, Greed, Inspire

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• In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you.

  Victor Kiam

  Running, Humorous, Service Culture

  "Management" by Arthur G. Bedeian, (p. 133), 1989.

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• Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Volleyball

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Money, Insperational

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.76, New Directions Publishing

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• To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Delight

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 4, sc. 4, l. 20

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• No enterprise can exist for itself alone.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Enterprise, Profitable Business, Profitable

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• If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Abraham Lincoln (1954). “The War Years, 1854-1865, Volume 3”

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• Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

  Charles Dickens

  Soul, Prosperity, Keystones

  Charles Dickens (2017). “A TALE OF TWO CITIES & BARNABY RUDGE (Historical Novels Set In the Time of Great Rebellions): The Riots of Eighty & French Revolution (Illustrated Classics with “The Life of Charles Dickens” & Criticism)”, p.563, e-artnow

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• In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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• The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect.

  Adam Osborne

  Encouraging, Mistake, Not Giving Up

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• Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Success, Confidence

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• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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• The time is always right to do what is right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  "This Dallas Boy's MLK Jr. Speech Is Such A Sweet Message For Today's World" by Sarah Friedmann, www.bustle.com. January 2018.

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