Good Business Quotes - Page 5

• A generation ago, the image was that you had to trample everyone else down to succeed; but I don't believe that makes good business sense.

  Richard Branson

  Business, Believe, Generations

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Cost-effective, attractive to business partners, environmentally friendly, easy access to a wide range of guidance and support - it makes good business sense to implement and maintain a robust and effective environmental management system

  Elliot Morley

  Business, Support, Environmental

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• Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.

  Norman Thomas

  War, People, Likes

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• Good journalism is good business practice; good business supports great journalism.

  Lachlan Murdoch

  Business, Practice, Support

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• When all is said and done, what must be remembered is a newspaper is a business. It used to be a fabulous business that made extraordinary margins. It's now a very good business with appropriate margins.

  Sam Zell

  Business, Done, Fabulous

  "Is private ownership better than public?" by Roy Greenslade, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2007.

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• Investment in the eradication of hunger today is a good business decision. If we fail to make this investment, it is doubtful that we can sustain healthy economic growth. Without this investment, our nation may disintegrate into a country sharply divided between those who have enough to eat and those who do not.

  Alan Hassenfeld

  Country, Decision, Healthy

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• In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether inside or outside the organisation the essence of good business, therefore, is the quality of the relationship between customer and supplier.

  Stephen Covey

  Real, Essence, Two

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• You know I think if the people who work for a business are proud of the business they work for, they'll work that much harder, and therefore, I think turning your business into a real force for good is good business sense as well.

  Richard Branson

  Real, Thinking, People

  Interview with Jeremy Hobson, www.marketplace.org. April 27, 2012.

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• Buying a share of a good business is better than buying a share of a bad business. One way to do this is to purchase a business that can invest its own money at high rates of return rather than purchasing a business that can only invest at lower ones. In other words, businesses that earn a high return on capital are better than businesses that earn a low return on capital.

  Joel Osteen

  Return, Way, Buying

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• For corporations to be bedfellows with the arts is good business for both. The architecture that houses a company is a more visible statement than the president's in the annual report. Ditto interiors, particularly of offices and sometimes, dramatically, in plants. For solvent businesses, support of community cultural undertakings in music, drama, dance creates great goodwill. Also, the existence of such activities is often important to the executives and their families that companies want to keep or attract to keep.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Art, Drama, Office

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• To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not alone good manners, but equally good business.

  Emily Post

  Good Man, Friendly, Manners

  "Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home".

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• Doing good business - being ethical, being transparent, being caring, implementing values in your business - makes a difference, and you make money at the same time.

  Shari Arison

  Caring, Differences, Making A Difference

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• Almost all good businesses engage in 'pain today, gain tomorrow' activities.

  Charlie Munger

  Pain, Today, Gains

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• Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Successful, Organization, Plans

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• And I really believe good journalism is good business.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Business, Believe, Journalism

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• Fact is, the work place to a great extent is "where we live." We need star accountants. Boffo saleswomen. Over-the-top creatives in marketing and new product development. And so on. But, since we're effectively talking about "where we live," good sense and good business and "good" engagement throughout the "supply chain," from vendor's vendor to customer's customer, we would benefit mightily-including on the P & L-if we insisted (!) on: "Pleasant." "Caring." "Engaged."

  Tom Peters

  Stars, Caring, Talking

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• In five years I don't think there'll be a reason to have a tablet anymore. Maybe a big screen in your workspace, but not a tablet as such. Tablets themselves are not a good business model.

  Thorsten Heins

  Thinking, Years, Tablets

  "BlackBerry CEO Questions Future of Tablets". Bloomberg Technology, April 30, 2013.

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• America's corporations learned long ago that equality is just good business and is the right thing to do.

  Lloyd Blankfein

  Long Ago, America, Corporations

  "Goldman Sachs' Lloyd Blankfein Appears in Same-Sex Marriage Ad" by Sophie Schillaci, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 02, 2012.

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• I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring. But I did very well.

  Dan Quayle

  Careers, Political, Brass

  "Before Palin, Republicans had Quayle". Interview with Cathleen Decker, articles.latimes.com. September 5, 2008.

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• Trust is a good business practice.

  Jim Blasingame

  Practice

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• I have thoroughly tried school-keeping, and found that my expenses were in proportion, or rather out of proportion, to my income,for I was obliged to dress and train, not to say think and believe, accordingly, and I lost my time into the bargain. As I did not teach for the good of my fellow-men, but simply for a livelihood, this was a failure. I have tried trade; but I found that it would take ten years to get under way in that, and that then I should probably be on my way to the devil. I was actually afraid that I might by that time be doing what is called a good business.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, School, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.50, Graphic Arts Books

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• Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of good business conditions. The purchasers view the good current earnings as equivalent to 'earning power' and assume that prosperity is equivalent to safety.

  Benjamin Graham

  Loss, Taught Us, Views

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• Even if the chef has a good business head, his focus should be behind kitchen doors. A business partner should take care of everything in front of the kitchen doors.

  Bobby Flay

  Doors, Focus, Kitchen

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• Being a good human being is good business.

  Paul Hawken

  Humans, Human Beings, Good Human Being

  Paul Hawken (1988). “Growing a Business”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• A good businessman must have nose for business the same way a journalist has nose for news. In places where people see a lot of obstacles, I see a lot of opportunities. A good businessman sees where others don’t see.

  Orji Uzor Kalu

  Opportunity, People, News

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