Business Quotes - Page 24

• You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

  J. Paul Getty

  Inspirational, Success, Real

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• Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.

  Henry J. Kaiser

  Inspirational, Motivational Sports, Monday

  "The Reader's Digest" by DeWitt Wallace, ‎Lila Acheson Wallace, Vol. 56, p. 18, January 1950.

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• Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  "My Life and Work". Book by Henry Ford, 1922.

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• The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

  Andre Maurois

  Leadership, Quality, Important

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• One of the most effective means for transcending ordinary and moving into the realm of extraordinary is saying yes more frequently and eliminating no almost completely. I call it saying yes to life. Say yes to yourself, to your family, your children, your coworkers, and your business.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Children, Moving

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way: Easyread Large Edition”, p.137, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Marketing, Saturation

  Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther (1930). “Moving Forward”

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• Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

  George Washington

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. I. Official letters relating to the French war, and private letters before the American revolution: March, 1754-May, 1775”, p.413

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• Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Leadership, Confidence

  Vince Lombardi (1998). “Seeing the Win: Why I Believe Vision Coaching is Vital to Winning Business Teams in the 21st Century”

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• The common question that gets asked in business is, why? That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not?

  Jeff Bezos

  Success, Entrepreneur, Imperfection

  "Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. November 13, 2011.

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• Fifteen Minutes of Notoriety Beats the Best Advertising Money Can Buy

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Fifteen, Advertising, Beats

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• It comes down to that ... business tactic: the guy that yells loudest is right.

  Irving Azoff

  Guy, Tactics

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• Having taught economics courses at private vocational schools and universities, I have always had a problem with GNP as a yardstick of prosperity. GNP is improved by increases in questionable activities such as consumption of cigarettes and the production of weapons. Moreover, a substantial increase in car accidents will favorably affect GNP because more funerals, hospital visits, car repairs, and new car purchases will result.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  School, Car, Funeral

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• I do not dislike but I certainly have no especial respect or admiration for and no trust in, the typical big moneyed men of my country. I do not regard them as furnishing sound opinion as respects either foreign or domestic business.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Men, No Trust

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• There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand, their only common interest is that of cutting each others throat.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Cutting, Matter, Common

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once Around the Sun”

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• You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.

  Tom Peters

  Lunch, Dull, Bread

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• If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Sex, Wall, Gentleman

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• There is little that can be said about most economic goods. A toothbrush does little but clean teeth. Aspirin does little but dull pain. Alcohol is important mostly for making people more or less drunk ... There being so little to be said, much is to be invented.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Pain, Drunk, People

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• The rushed existence into which industrialized, commercialized man has precipitated himself is actually a good example of an inexpedient development caused entirely by competition between members of the same species. Human beings of today are attacked by so-called manager diseases, high blood pressure, renal atrophy, gastric ulcers, and torturing neuroses: they succumb to barbarism because they have no more time for cultural interests.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Men, Blood, Competition

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• An office party is not, as is sometimes supposed, the Managing Director's chance to kiss the tea-girl. It is the tea-girl's chance to kiss the Managing Director (however bizarre an ambition this may seem to anyone who has seen the Managing Director face on).

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Girl, Party, Ambition

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• Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

  Henry Ford

  Strong, Believe, Men

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• They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

  William Hazlitt

  Gratitude, Corporations, Shame

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• If you need to bring in a business partner, make sure your partner brings along some money.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Needs, Partners, Ifs

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• Every child should be placed on a doorstep to sell something. It's the best possible training for life.

  Robert Morley

  Children, Training, Should

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• A Bit of Craziness Is Good for Business

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Craziness, Bits

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