Business Quotes - Page 9

• Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

  W. Clement Stone

  Entrepreneur, Trying, Experts

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• We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Positive, Success, Birth Defects

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• Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing

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• Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

  Sloan Wilson

  Funny, Success, Stupid

  Sloan Wilson (1976). “What shall we wear to this party?: The man in the gray flannel suit twenty years before & after”, Arbor House Publishing

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• Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

  Northrop Frye

  Mixtures, Advertising, Flattery

  Northrop Frye (1976). “The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance”, p.167, Harvard University Press

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• Customers want brands that are narrow in scope and distinguishable by a single word, the shorter the better.

  Al Ries

  Want, Scope, Single Word

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• Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.

  Zoroaster

  People, Waiting, Hungry

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• We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.

  Joseph Joubert

  Ideas, Age, Essentials

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Champions are pioneers, and pioneers get shot at. The companies that get the most from champions, therefore, are those that have rich support network so their pioneers will flourish. This point is so important it's hard to overstress. No support systems, no champions. No champions, no innovations.

  Tom Peters

  Support Systems, Champion, Innovation

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• We built this company from the customer back, not from the company out.

  Lou Gerstner

  Company, Customers, Built

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• The key to evangelism is a great product. It is easy, almost unavoidable, to catalyze evangelism for a great product. It is hard, almost impossible, to catalyze evangelism for crap.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Keys, Impossible, Easy

  Guy Kawasaki (2008). “Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition”, p.157, Penguin

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• Simplification is one of the most difficult things to do.

  Jonathan Ive

  Kindness, Comeback, Defeat

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• You cannot design better products by staying in the office.

  Tom Kelley

  Office, Design, Staying

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• It had always made sense to me to build a business based on what people really wanted, rather than guess what we thought they might want.

  Michael Dell

  People, Want, Might

  Michael Dell, Catherine Fredman (2010). “Direct From Dell: Strategies that Revolutionized an Industry”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• A product for everyone rarely reaches much of anyone.

  Seth Godin

  Products

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• You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

  Jurgen E. Schrempp

  Evening, Subordinates

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• One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

  A. C. Benson

  Mean, Decision, Mind

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• Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Success, Money

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• There is no such thing as a good tax.

  Winston Churchill

  Taxes Funny, Income Tax, Tax Day

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• We must intertwine business and ethics in a very fundamental way.

  Robert Bruner

  Fundamentals, Way, Ethics

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• Please all, and you will please none.

  Aesop

  Literature, Fables, Approval

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.63, Pelekanos Books

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• If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

  The Advancement of Learning bk. 1, ch. 5, sec. 8 (1605)

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• If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

  B. C. Forbes

  Motivation, Inspiration, Insperational

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• In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

  William Wordsworth

  Money, Men, Crooks

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• Don't do business with anyone who has a history of suing people.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  People, Suing

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.183, Thomas Nelson Inc

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