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Business

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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.

Young, Owen D.

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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

Shakespeare, William

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

31.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An