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• Showed good business judgment, knowing that these continued lawsuits would be the untimely death of the gun industry.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Gun, Knowing, Would Be

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• In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property.

  Charles Handy

  Community, Purpose, Pieces

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• Why are we trying to measure social media like a traditional channel anyway? Social media touches every facet of business and is more an extension of good business ethics.

  Erik Qualman

  Media, Trying, Ethics

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• In seeking to serve social needs because it makes good business sense to do so, a corporation is doing what it knows how to do best.

  Henry Ford II

  Business, Needs, Corporations

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• Any good business person applies financial discipline to everything they do. The movie business is and should be no different; I don't believe you have to sacrifice creativity to have business success. To the contrary, great art requires discipline.

  Paula Wagner

  Art, Believe, Creativity

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• I made this bad joke on Twitter saying, "I want to put in my first no-bid contract to train the Libyan army and police force." These counter-insurgency guys like to say, "We don't do the big F-16 or big boondoggle projects, we're not pulling this stuff because it's good business." But in fact it turns out there are tons of business opportunities involving counter-insurgency operations - and it's not like we're getting rid of the boondoggle programs either, we're just doing more of everything.

  Michael Hastings

  Army, Opportunity, Guy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do but it makes for good business.

  James Sinegal

  Wages, Employee, Wells

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• When I was little I knew my father had been an orphan and had lived in an orphanage. I was curious, but my father wouldn't satisfy my curiosity. He told only one story about the orphanage, and that was of sneaking out and buying candy, which he sold to other orphans. He said he had a pretty good business going - till he was busted! I guess he told that anecdote because he was the hero of it and I suspect he was rarely the hero as a child, more often the victim. There's a photo of the actual orphanage on my website, and you can see it's a forbidding looking place.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Children, Father, Hero

  Interview with Jessica Day George, www.bookshoptalk.com. September 22, 2011.

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• Treat your business relationships like friendships (or potential friendships). Formality puts up walls, and walls don't foster good business relationships. No one is loyal to a wall... except the one in China.

  Steve Pavlina

  Wall, Business, Loyal

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• A good businessman sees where others don’t see. What I see, you may not see. You cannot see because that is the secret of the business… the entire world is a big market waiting for anybody who knows the rules of the game.

  Orji Uzor Kalu

  Games, Waiting, Secret

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• If we want people on the front lines of companies to be responsible for making good business decisions, they must have the same information that managers use to make good business decisions.

  Ken Blanchard

  People, Decision, Use

  Ken Blanchard, John P. Carlos, Alan Randolph (1999). “The 3 Keys to Empowerment: Release the Power Within People for Astonishing Results”, p.47, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• It takes a lot more to run a good business than just trailing commissions or kickbacks otherwise everybody would succeed, wouldn't they?

  John Ilhan

  Success, Running, Business

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• I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people. It's strange that the only time the major press talks about them is when someone gets killed or does drugs or something; yet these are the same press people who made heroes out of the Mafia and other crooks, you know.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Hero, People, Hip Hop

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.

  Herb Ritts

  Economics, Business Sense, Enjoyed

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• Donald Trump is a good businessman. He knows how to put the deal together. And I think he'd be a - he'll be a very constructive figure in the White House.

  Rick Santorum

  Thinking, White, House

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I tend to go with things people need. Obviously with the barbershop, people will need haircuts regardless of the economy. In a down economy, I choose businesses that don't require a lot of start-up cash or a cash injection on a regular basis. They might need some initially, but not often after. Rental of properties is a good business in a down economy as people struggle with mortgages.

  Kamerion Wimbley

  Struggle, People, Needs

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• Facebook will figure out ways to allow people to have good businesses.

  Jonah Peretti

  People, Way, Figures

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power.

  Henry Ford

  Waiting, Cost, Buying

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.91, 谷月社

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• Hollywood was set up by a bunch of businessmen. They do not see their job as being philanthropists. I don't think it's a contradiction in terms to attempt to be a good businessman and to also be liberal.

  Sydney Pollack

  Jobs, Thinking, Hollywood

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• The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Engineering, Ideas

  "One-on-One with Bill Gates". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. February 16, 2005.

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• Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she'd added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community. No rule says that only the local banker or car dealer can organize the program to raise supplemental funds for the public library or send the high school band on a well-earned special trip. Participating in community affairs, with time more than dollars, is good business from day one. It gets your name around, adds to your distinctiveness, and, best of all, makes you an attractive employer (which is the key to sustained success).

  Tom Peters

  Business, Real, School

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.117, Vintage

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• Photography works upon the human eye: what is seen is reflected in the brain without the need for complicated thought. In this way the bourgeoisie takes advantage of the mental indolence of the masses and does good business as well.

  Willi Munzenberg

  Photography, Eye, Brain

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• Keep your money in the first place. Let`s make our companies competitive and let`s make good business decisions dominate their decision making, not what`s good for Washington carve outs.

  Paul Ryan

  Decision, Firsts, Company

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Whatever the composition of a firm, if it is to do good business it should be a place where everyone is encouraged to progress toward complexity- or at the very least a place that does not make it more difficult to achieve personal growth.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Growth, Progress, Doe

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• Talking to God was damned good business.

  Victor Villasenor

  Talking, Talking To God

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