Great Business Quotes - Page 4

• Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

  Michael Gerber

  People, Ordinary, Built

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• It depends as there's many different types of chefs, some who cook for awards and others who cook to make their restaurant a great business. There are those who cook for a lifestyle, they'll have come through pubs and they like to have the connection to the farmers and the chickens and the natural produce. So for each chef it'll be slightly different.

  Paul Rankin

  Awards, Connections, Different

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• It is the great business of every Christian to save souls. People complain that they do not know how to take hold of this matter. Why, the reason is plain enough; they have never studied it. They have never taken the proper pains to qualify themselves for the work. If you do not make it a matter of study, how you may successfully act in building up the kingdom of Christ, you are acting a very wicked and absurd part as a Christian.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Christian, Pain, Taken

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• Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people.

  Brother Ali

  Mean, Reality, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If the technology hadn't changed, they [newspapers] would still be great businesses. Network TV [in its heyday], anyone could run and do well. If Tom Murphy as running it, you'd do very well, but even your idiot nephew could do well. Fortunately, carbide cutting tools [such as those made by Iscar] don't have these types of substitutes.

  Charlie Munger

  Running, Cutting, Technology

  Charlie Munger's advice on investing at the 2006 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 6, 2006.

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• Wrigley is a great business, but that doesn't solve the problem. Buying great businesses at advantageous prices is very tough.

  Charlie Munger

  Buying, Tough, Problem

  Charlie Munger's comments on Wrigley at the 2001 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 2, 2001.

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• We regard using [a stock's] volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of capital, or 2) the risk of inadequate return. Some great businesses have very volatile returns - for example, See's [a candy company owned by Berkshire] usually loses money in two quarters of each year - and some terrible businesses can have steady results.

  Charlie Munger

  Loss, Years, Nuts

  Charlie Munger's comments on risk at the 2001 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. April 28, 2001.

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• Every great business is built on friendship.

  James Cash Penney

  Inspirational, Educational, Loyal Customers

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• I'm going to start a lot of companies. These are not sham companies. These are great businesses.

  Eric Lefkofsky

  Company

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• Many people in Western culture are striving for success. They want the home, they want the great business. They want all of these outer things. But what we found in our research is that having those things, certainly doesn't guarantee what we really want, which is happiness. And that's when all those outer things come. They don't come from going after them first to get the happiness, it's backwards; you go for the sense of inner joy, of inner peace, of inner vision first and then all of the other things from the outside appear.

  Marci Shimoff

  Home, People, Joy

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• Here`s a guy who says he`s a great businessman. But it seems like a lot of Trump's business is built around stiffing small businesses and workers out of what he owes them, work they`ve done. He thinks that`s cute or smart or funny to basically not pay somebody who`s done work for him and say go ahead and sue me because I`ve got more money than you and you can`t do anything about it.

  Barack Obama

  Cute, Smart, Thinking

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We've been in the Mac software business for more than 20 years. And it's been a great business for us.

  Scott Erickson

  Years, Macs, Software

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• Unless your campaign has a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night.

  David Ogilvy

  Night, Ideas, Marketing

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• Let's execute along this strategy, but know that we'll probably get some of this wrong, so be open to changing it.

  Alan G. Lafley

  Strategy, Knows

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• Designing a winning strategy is the art of asking questions, experimenting and then constantly renewing the thinking process by questioning the answers. No matter how good today's strategy is, you must always keep reinventing it.

  Constantinos C. Markides

  Art, Winning, Thinking

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• I believe that things kind of happen for a reason. But at the same time my real mission is just to continue working in the movie business with the scripts I enjoy, characters that challenge me and people that I admire. It's such a great business when you're in it and the ability to do things that even surprise you is continually evident. For me, it's just about challenging myself - that's the biggest thing - and taking care of my child and paying my bills.

  Julian McMahon

  Children, Real, Believe

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I want to get just as many people ready for Heaven as I can. Hell is a place where there is 'weeping and gnashing of teeth'; Heaven is a place of joy, happiness and no tears . . . Being a soul winner is greater than being a preacher or a great doctor or a great dentist or a great businessman. Let's get people ready for Heaven.

  Lee Roberson

  Doctors, People, Joy

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• For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.

  Leland Ryken

  Spiritual, Quests, Holiness

  Leland Ryken (2010). “Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were”, p.301, Harper Collins

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• Every human being needs to know to be a great parent, for a teacher to be a great teacher, and for a business partner to be a great business partner. We can't fall back on, "Oh, I only said it once and it didn't matter." That kind of phrase. That's a not-good thing for a leader to hold inside. If what that leader did is do that separation and this person now knew that they were not going to be on the popular team, doing it once and then not doing it again isn't enough to erase what just happened.

  Judith E. Glaser

  Teacher, Team, Fall

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• An amazing piece of advice for a lot of kids, 50-year-olds, whoever is listening right now: Saving money is a good strategy. I didn't have stuff, but it was because my parents were saving. They were saving. We didn't get toys. They told us to go outside and paint a rock. It was very, very smart because after seven or eight years, he was able to buy a liquor store of his own in Springfield, New Jersey - Shoppers Discount Liquors. He built up a great business.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Smart, Kids, Parent

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.

  Mark Burnett

  Beer, Thinking, Ideas

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• In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.

  Mick Fleetwood

  Running, Order, People

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• One thing I always say is being a great chef today is not enough - you have to be a great businessman.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Today, Chef, Enough

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• A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.

  Charlie Munger

  Fairs, Superiors

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• I know when my father [Donald Trump] puts his mind to something he's going to do a phenomenal job with it. He's a great businessman. He has an incredible track record. And I know he understands what this country needs and what it wants.

  Donald Trump, Jr.

  Country, Jobs, Father

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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