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There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.
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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.
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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.
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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn. I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.
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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.
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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.
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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be
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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.
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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.
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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.
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Business is more exciting than any game.
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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!
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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.
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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.
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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.
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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!
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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.
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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.
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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.
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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
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What helps people, helps business.
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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.
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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.
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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
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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.
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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.
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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.
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No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.
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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
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It's the economy, stupid.
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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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The business of the country is business.
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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.
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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.
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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.
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Location, location, location.
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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.
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A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.
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You can't run a business without taking risks.
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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.
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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.
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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.
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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.
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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.
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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.
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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
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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.
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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.
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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
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A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.
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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.
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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.
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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.
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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?
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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.
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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.
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Drive your business, let not you're business drive you.
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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.
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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.
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