Business Quotes - Page 2

• Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Motivational, Success, Attitude

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• I'd always had a childhood ambition to go into the investment capital business, and spent twenty-odd years in it. But the thought of spending the second half of my career in the same business was boring, so I looked around for other opportunities .

  Chris Corrigan

  Ambition, Opportunity, Years

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• Executive: a man who makes quick decisions and is sometimes right.

  Kin Hubbard

  Men, Decision, Sometimes

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• The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Up Early, Oil, Secret

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• We need to think harder and smarter. What we really need is holistic analysis, not holistic media data. We need to make better use of what we have. We need to dig deeper and ask, 'Do you need to repeat the whole study or can you examine the bits that have changed and re-calibrate?'

  Jenny Beck

  Thinking, Media, Data

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• Many companies have long contended that stress in the home causes productivity loss in the market place.. and it does. But research now reveals that stress on the job causes stress at home. In other words, they feed off each other

  Zig Ziglar

  Success, Jobs, Stress

  Zig Ziglar (2000). “Staying Up, Up, Up in a Down, Down World: Daily Hope for the Daily Grind”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do.

  Charles Jaffe

  Moving Forward, Turtles, Whales

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• To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

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• If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.

  Zig Ziglar

  Success, Wise, Home

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Aug 08, 2014

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• The next thing to be said about what long-range planning is not, is that it does not deal with future decisions. It deals with the futurity of present decisions. Decisions exist only in the present. The question that faces the long-range planner is not what we should do tomorrow.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Future, Long

  "Technology, Management and Society".

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• Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

  Zig Ziglar

  Success, Character, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 23, 2012

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• The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company.

  Masaaki Imai

  Kaizen, Messages, Improvement

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• Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Inspirational, Leadership, Thinking

  "Why Aren’t You Delegating?" by Amy Gallo, hbr.org. July 26, 2012.

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• American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?

  Diane Ravitch

  Education, School, Ideas

  Diane Ravitch (2016). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.236, Basic Books

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• A good portfolio is more than a long list of good stocks and bonds. It is a balanced whole, providing the investor with protections and opportunities with respect to a wide range of contingencies.

  Harry Markowitz

  Opportunity, Long, Lists

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• The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

  Faye Wattleton

  Leadership, Storm, Safe

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• I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.

  Lawrence Bossidy

  Relationship, People, Entrepreneur

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• There are only two ways to establish competitive advantage: do things better than others or do them differently.

  Karl Albrecht

  Two, Entrepreneur, Competition

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• Excuses are useless. Results are priceless.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Entrepreneur, Useless, Priceless

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• We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both

  Paul Polman

  Choices, Growth, Sustainability

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• Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.

  Sean Parker

  Running, Starting Up, Glasses

  "Sean Parker: 'Now Is The Most Toxic Time Ever In Silicon Valley'" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. October 02, 2012.

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• There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

  Joseph Addison

  Decision Making

  'The Drummer' (1716) act 5, sc. 1

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• EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them.

  Peter Thiel

  Learning, Zuckerberg, Entrepreneur

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Books Summary: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.2, Best Books on

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• You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Motivational, Success

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So this is the goal: To make money by increasing net profit, while simultaneously increasing return on investment, and simultaneously increasing cash flow.

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt

  Money, Cash Flow, Goal

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox (2016). “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement”, p.53, Routledge

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