Business World Quotes - Page 3

• In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Insperational, Mirrors

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• The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have.

  Willie Mays

  Baseball, College, Thinking

  "What It Takes" with Alice Winkler., learningenglish.voanews.com. August 25, 2017.

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• There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.

  Norman Mailer

  Sex, Powerful, Business

  Norman Mailer (1966). “Cannibals and Christians”, Dell, 1967

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• It's important to build a personal brand because it's the only thing you're going to have. Your reputation online, and in the new business world is pretty much the game, so you've got to be a good person. You can't hide anything, and more importantly, you've got to be out there at some level.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Games, Important, World

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• The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning

  Bill Gates

  People, Investing, World

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• Women are successful in the business world because the business world was created by men. Men are babies. And women areGood With Kids.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Baby, Kids, Successful

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• In the business world, allegations of accounting irregularities is tantamount to yelling fire in a crowded theater, except, today, in our Internet world, instead of people running for the exit signs, they just push the button on their computer.

  Jeffrey Skilling

  Running, Business, Yelling

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• If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.

  Charles Kettering

  Business, Want, Mail

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• The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we're in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it's very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie

  Scott Bakula

  Loyalty, Lying, Priorities

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• The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.

  George Lois

  Business, Cynical, Individuality

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• In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand for your product. But in government the opposite is true - demand for our services increases in hard times.

  Sonny Perdue

  Hard Times, Government, Opposites

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• In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

  Harold Geneen

  Life, Motivational, Graduation

  "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, 1984.

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• I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did.

  Willie Mays

  Baseball, Being Yourself, Player

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• Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Girl, Men

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• The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them.

  Michael Moore

  Buckets, World, Hiring

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• The question is, when so many others cut corners, shave the truth, self-deal, believe in the fast buck, and follow the crowd along the low road of least resistance, can we even afford to travel the high road of ethical behavior? Frankly, we can't afford anything else. Any other competitive angle is a pure crapshoot in today's business world. Companies with shaky ethics and shabby standards will be crippled as they try to compete in our changing world.

  Price Pritchett

  Business, Believe, Cutting

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• From time to time, you have seminal personalities who really change the way the world sees itself - people like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela. Warren Buffett is that kind of person in the business world.

  Guy Spier

  Kings, People, Personality

  "Buffett lunch: $650,000 to eat with legendary investor" by Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2007.

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• In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else.

  James Surowiecki

  News, World, Good News And Bad News

  "Don't Do the Math". www.newyorker.com. January 24, 2005.

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• If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get that business? Because bribery encourages people to make decisions based on the wrong criteria, which means in the business world that it distorts the efficient allocation of resources.

  James Surowiecki

  Mean, People, Decision

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• Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town.

  Herschel Walker

  Football, Business, Thinking

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• There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'

  Muhammad Yunus

  Expression, Selfishness, Different

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• As a group, anthropologists are not too fond of people who work in the business world.

  Helen Fisher

  People, Groups, World

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• There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail. They are too conditioned, too used to being told what to do. It begins with the family, runs through school and goes into the business world.

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Moving, School

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• In the business world, what’s the female equivalent of going golfing with a client?” Laney gave this some thought. Payton fell silent, too, contemplating. After a few moments, neither of them could come up with anything. How depressing. Payton sighed, feigning resignation. “Well, that’s it. I guess I’ll just have to sleep with them.” Laney folded her hands primly on the table. “I think I’m uncomfortable with this conversation.

  Julie James

  Depressing, Sleep, Thinking

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• The leverage and influence social media gives citizens are rapidly spreading into the business world.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Media, Giving, Citizens

  Twitter post from Dec 22, 2015

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