Business World Quotes - Page 4

• The labor movement had been pretty much killed in the 1920s, almost destroyed. It revived in the 1930s and made a huge difference. By the late 1930s the business world was already trying to find ways to beat it back.

  Noam Chomsky

  Differences, Trying, Movement

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• The intellectual finds it reassuring to say that the businessman gets his money by luck; or monopoly, or exploitation, or dishonesty, or what have you. As a matter of fact, the truly dishonest man will last longer in college -teaching or the ministry than he will in the business world.

  Benjamin A. Rogge

  Teaching, College, Men

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• Long distances used to be a moat that both insulated and isolated people from workers on the other side of the world. But every day, technology narrows that moat inch by inch. Every person in the world is on the verge of becoming both a coworker and a competitor to every one of us ... Technological change is going to reach out and sooner or later change something fundamental in your business world.

  Andy Grove

  Distance, Technology, Technological Change

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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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• When I came to Congress, I came to bring what I thought was a real-world business perspective to government because, in the business world, I spent over 20 years in the high-tech industry, but it certainly was not unique.

  Melissa Bean

  Real, Unique, Technology

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• Take Cuba. A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it too. But the government won't allow it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Long, Majority

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Public opinion actually applauds the young woman venturing into the business world, but it still obstinately (and quite illogically) protects the young man in his sacred right to know nothing of housework.

  Crystal Eastman

  Business, Men, Public Opinion

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I suggest the greatest challenge to Christians in the business world is within - making the heart determination (simply put, the choice) to live by God's principles and sticking with it; making the commitment to serving Christ and mankind with our efforts, our gifts and our knowledge.

  Zig Ziglar

  Christian, Determination, Heart

  Source: www.centerforfaithandwork.com

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• Retailers should not be filling their minds with all the things that are wrong, with how the economy is going, or with trying to get someplace in the business world. They should enjoy being in this moment and in this day and serving the people who come in.

  Wayne Dyer

  People, Mind, Trying

  New Age Retailer Interview, www.drwaynedyer.com. November 2005.

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• If you're talking about intellectual and social equality for women, we're not much better off.America is still very much a male-dominated society. Most American men feel threatened sexually unless they're taller than the female, more intellectual, better educated, better paid and higher placed statuswise in the business world. They've got to be the authority, the final word.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Men, Talking, America

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• The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.

  Douglas Coupland

  Real, Two, World

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• I initially wanted to be a teacher and then I was going to become an engineer and build bridges and highways but pretty soon I went into the business world. I never did get to be a teacher except in a different way.

  Lou Gerstner

  Teacher, Bridges, Different

  "In Focus: Lou Gerstner". Interview with Richard Quest, www.cnn.com. July 2, 2004.

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• We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can render invaluable service.

  John Bates Clark

  Views, Law, Broken

  John Bates Clark, John Maurice Clark (1914). “The Control of Trusts”

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• School is such an encouraging and safe environment. It's filled with idealism and just really working on your craft. When you enter the business world - where art meets commerce - it can become quite depressing.

  Troy Garity

  Depressing, Art, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Opportunity, America, Trials

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• Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and selling products online.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Selling Products, Generations, World

  Marc Ostrofsky (2013). “Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People are people.

  Don Tapscott

  Play, Issues, People

  "Are Corporations People (Redux)? Why Jack Welch Is Wrong" by Don Tapscott, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 16, 2012.

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• Gov. Romney is a proven and effective leader with vast experience in the business world, in the non-profit world and in government. And in every capacity in which he has ever served, he has been effective as a leader.

  Jim Talent

  Government, Leader, World

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• Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Frustration, Men, Luxury

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• "There is nothing," says a correspondent of the New York Times, "which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  New York, Men, Thinking

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought" by Christian Nestell Bovee, Vol. I, (p. 84), 1862.

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• In the business world, management is always viewed in terms of productivity. Why? Because productivity is the key to the success of the organization and to your future as a manager.

  Tony Alessandra

  Keys, Organization, World

  Tony Alessandra (1986). “The New Art of Managing People”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Our own economy tells us to take as much as we can get, right? Our own economy says, you're going to be the most successful graduate if you go into the business world and take as much you can get. That's not how nature works. Nature has a much simpler economy. Everything in nature takes what it needs. That's it. You don't see an oak tree gathering up all the resources. An oak tree takes what it needs to be the authentic oak tree it is.

  Tom Shadyac

  Successful, Simplicity, Tree

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• I think it would be much better for the country and for (Clinton) personally (to resign). I come from the business side. If you had a chairman or president in the business world facing these allegations, he'd be gone.

  Mark Sanford

  Country, Thinking, President

  "Sanford fallout seen as severe, with long-lasting effects". Robert Behre, The Post and Courier, September 12, 1998.

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• Producing and distributing premium TV entertainment content is more 'global' now than at any point in the history of the business. World Screen does an excellent job in following the news, trends and key players. It's a must-read for those in the business of global TV and brings us that much closer to prospective buyers and distributors of our premium content.

  Chris Albrecht

  Jobs, Player, Keys

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• Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Giving, Would Be

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.187, Cosimo, Inc.

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