Business Quotes - Page 25

• If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Wish, Customers, Ifs

  M. FREDERIC BASTIAT (1870). “SOPHISMS OF THE PROTECTIONISTS.”, p.222

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• The business of everybody is the business of nobody.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

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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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• In fact, I have a problem with too much money... I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Self Improvement, Too Much, Investing

  "Meet the Street: Rich Dad, Rich Author". Interview with Lee Barney, www.thestreet.com. January 11, 2002.

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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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• 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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• The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

  David Ricardo

  Wages, Farming, Economics

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.68

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• In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Success, Military, Preparation

  Quoted in Richard Nixon, Six Crises (1962)

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• Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Young Entrepreneurs

  FaceBook post by Richard Branson from May 09, 2016

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• Business is more exciting than any game.

  Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

  Games, Entrepreneur, Exciting

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• If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

  Jeff Bezos

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Online Extra: Jeff Bezos on Word-of-Mouth Power". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. August 2, 2004.

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• Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women". Book by Armand Eisen (p. 15), 1992.

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• I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

  Alan Greenspan

  Success, Honesty, Greatness

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• I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

  Walter Chrysler

  Life, Motivational, Sorry

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• Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Spiritual, Sides, Advertising

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• The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

  Jack Anderson

  Dark, Government, Political

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

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• Like squirrels, the best in every business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilities - they flat out trust their skills, which is why we call this high-performance state of mind the "Trusting Mindset."

  John Eliot

  Skills, Squirrels, Achievement

  John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.26, Diversion Books

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• We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough... we're only paid for breakthroughs.

  Bill Gates

  Come Up, Breakthrough, Paid

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• Sell practical, tested merchandise at a reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings - and they will always come back.

  Leon Leonwood Bean

  Service Culture, Profit, Treats

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• The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."

  John W. Gardner

  Men, Cynic, One Man

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• The best players in any high-stakes field - business, entertainment, law, surgery, as well as sport - recognize that pressure occurs at the moments when meaningful accomplishment is possible. In fact, that is the reason why performers perform: for the opportunity to tackle challenges head on, to do something significant, to demonstrate what their hard work and talent can produce.

  John Eliot

  Success, Meaningful, Sports

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• The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Success, Ambition, Men

  John D. Rockefeller (2003). “Random Reminiscences of Men and Events”, p.133, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Night, Waiting, Pay

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• The message from Wal-Mart today to the rest of the business community is there need not be any conflict between the environment and the economy. We will find the way not only to reconcile (those), but to find new profits and new opportunities as we do the right thing.

  Al Gore

  Opportunity, Community, Needs

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• I'm a firm believer that to really understand a business takes years, not months. As an investment analyst you think you understand a business from the outside, but the reality is that, once you are inside, you can go on learning for five or ten years.

  Chris Corrigan

  Reality, Thinking, Years

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