Great Business Quotes - Page 5

• A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one's work, the pride that makes business an art.

  Henry Latham Doherty

  Success, Art, Work

  Henry Latham Doherty (1923). “Principles and Ideas for Doherty Men: Papers, Addresses and Letters”

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• With women, the great business of life is love; and they generally make a mistake in it. They consult neither the heart nor the head, but are led away by mere humour and fancy. If instead of a companion for life, they had to choose a partner in a country-dance or to trifle away an hour with, their mode of calculation would be right. They tie their true-lover's knot with idle, thoughtless haste, while the institutions of society render it indissoluble.

  William Hazlitt

  Country, Mistake, Women

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.111

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• Great business turns on a little pin.

  George Herbert

  Littles, Pins, Turns

  George Herbert (1871). “The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum”, p.245

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• I want to be known as a great businessman.

  Edward Lampert

  Want, Businessman, Known

  "Eddie Lampert: The best investor of his generation" by Patricia Sellers, money.cnn.com. February 6, 2006.

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• The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside. A great company is a conspiracy to change the world; when you share your secret, the recipient becomes a fellow conspirator.

  Peter Thiel

  Entrepreneur, Secret, World

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.83, Crown Business

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• Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.

  Josiah Strong

  Disaster, Distress

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• The primary reason in starting a business part-time is not so much to make a product great. The real reason for starting a part-time business is to make you a great businessperson.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Real, Financial, Reason

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• When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!

  Paul Prudhomme

  Fun, Risk, Losing

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• Great businesses turne on a little pinne.

  George Herbert

  Littles

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.351

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• A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?

  Jane Addams

  Cities, May, Corporations

  Jane Addams, Berenice A. Carroll, Clinton F. Fink (1907). “Newer Ideals of Peace”, p.101, University of Illinois Press

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• The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Learning

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• Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.

  Tony Hsieh

  Good Business, Profit, Missions

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• I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these days of fiercest competition, when everything would seem to be a matter of price, there lies still at the root of great business success the very much more important factor of quality. The effect of attention to quality, upon every man in the service, from the president of the concern down to the humblest laborer, cannot be overestimated.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Lying, Men, Roots

  Andrew Carnegie (2015). “Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: Top Biography”, p.77, 谷月社

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• If you have a great business, if you're great at your craft people should be coming in there. It shouldn't be this secret.

  Andrew Mason

  People, Secret, Crafts

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• I think great businessmen are more likely made than born. I don't know if it's from your upbringing, your parental background, the struggles you go through. In my own particular situation, I left school at 15 and I was struggling to survive in the jungle and that was a great education. So I think just getting out there, hands on, learning to survive teaches you a lot.

  Richard Branson

  Struggle, School, Thinking

  "Screw Business as Usual: an interview with Sir Richard Branson". Interview with Todd Miller, blog.sfgate.com. January 9, 2012.

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• A lot of things seem to be worth almost no money. but if you do them very well, and they help people fill a need, there's a great business you can build around that.

  Steve Wozniak

  People, Needs, Helping

  "How Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Gets Things Done". Interview with Kevin Purdy, lifehacker.com. April 22, 2009.

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• Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.

  Alphonse Karr

  Ideas, Dresses, Fixed

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• The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst the concerns of the nation are secondary.

  George Washington

  Party, Ideas, Revolution

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• I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

  Tamara Mellon

  Gossip, Care, Building

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• We have outlived this embryo, this human cradle, and now it's time to be up and about the great business of becoming citizens of the galaxy and at home with our own heart.

  Terence McKenna

  Home, Heart, Citizens

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• A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.

  Howard Schultz

  Knows, Who You Are, Conscience

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• My biggest challenge every day is to be a great mother and a great businesswoman.

  Tory Burch

  Mother, Challenges, Great Mother

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• It is the great business of every Christian to save souls.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Christian, Soul

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• If sustainability is going to take hold in the corporate sector in a big way - and we need it to - it will be when it produces big profits and faster growth. It won't happen because of an optional executive commitment to an abstract concept. It will happen because sustainability is a great business strategy. And it is

  Paul Gilding

  Business, Commitment, Growth

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