Business Quotes - Page 22

• If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Life, Success, Women

  "Invest in Life Experiences" by Sean Kim, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2014.

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• Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

  Colin Powell

  Military, Political, Ego

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• I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.

  Elvis Presley

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• I invent nothing, I rediscover.

  Auguste Rodin

  Life, Beautiful, Art

  "Auguste Rodin: The Man, His Ideas, His Works". Book by Camille Mauclair (p. 60-61), 1905.

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• Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Jun 6, 2016

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• Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere.

  Paul Ryan

  Hair, Cities, Knowing

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Money, Saving, Management

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• It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  "Born to Run: Origins of the Political Career". Book by Ronald Keith Gaddie, p. 119, 2003.

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• You cannot sell a man who isn't listening; word of mouth is the best medium of all; and dullness won't sell your product, but neither will irrelevant brilliance.

  William Bernbach

  Men, Listening, Mouths

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• It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

  Adam Smith

  Invisible Hand, Government, Liberty

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 1, bk. 1, ch. 2 (1776)

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• As more and more people wake up to the fact that further growth does not necessarily bring improvements in quality of life (and often exactly the opposite), sustainability is going to become one of the key characteristics with which places want to be associated.

  Jonathon Porritt

  Opposites, Keys, People

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• Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

  Ted Turner

  Tragedy, Machines, Gains

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• Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.

  Sam Walton

  Educational, Commitment, Support

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• Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Change, Block, Risk

  Thomas J. Watson (1963). “A business and its beliefs: the ideas that helped build IBM.”

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• A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sports, Teamwork, Rewards And Recognition

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• It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Funny, Life, Success

  "The Queen of Daytime TV". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 25, 1991.

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• Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.

  Carter G. Woodson

  People, Pioneers, Taught

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.108, Book Tree

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• Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork

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• The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.

  Warren Buffett

  Management, Weak, Reactions

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• Good design can't fix broken business models.

  Jeffrey Veen

  Broken, Design, Models

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• Somehow, I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. The special secret it seems to me is summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Courage, Confidence and Constancy. And the greatest of all is Confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

  Walt Disney

  Motivational, Positive, Success

  "Perceive This! : How to Get Everything You Want Out of Life by Changing Your Perceptions". Book by Kevin A. Martin, 2004.

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• Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Hands, Tyrants, Deception

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• The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Caves, Architecture

  "Culture Is Our Business". Book by Marshall McLuhan, 1970.

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• Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Journey, Marketing

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• It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

  Theodore Parker

  Taken, Men, Pressure

  Theodore Parker (1865). “Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man”, p.85

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