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• Always do what you say you are going to do. It is the glue and fiber that binds successful relationships.

  Jeffry A Timmons

  Successful, Glue, Fiber

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• At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.

  Hugh Jackman

  Drama, School, Eight

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• Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

  Steve Jobs

  Money, Apples, Innovation

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• Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Witty, Keeping Promises

  'The Idler' no. 40 (20 January 1759)

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• There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Positive Thinking, Sleep

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Easyread Edition”, p.243, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.

  Bill Rancic

  Jobs, Entrepreneur, Would Be

  Bill Rancic (2009). “You're Hired: How to Succeed in Business and Life from the Winner of The Apprentice”, p.16, Zondervan

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• It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference.

  Michael Dell

  Success, Opportunity, Differences

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• Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it

  M. Anthony Burns

  Mean, Way, Management

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• The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Funny, Humor, Intellectual

  "A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations" by Alan L. MacKay, (p. 140), 1977.

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• Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Opportunity, Men, Being Sad

  "Notes for a Law Lecture," ca. 1 July 1850

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• The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

  Walter Lippmann

  Simple, People, Bigs

  "Walter Lippmann and the American Century. [Mit Portr.] (2. Print.)" by Ronald Steel, Transaction Publishers, (p. 277), 1980.

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• Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

  J. P. Morgan

  Want, Lawyer, Wells

  Quoted in Ida M. Tarbell, The Life of Elbert H. Gary (1925)

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• Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.

  David Ogilvy

  Lying, Writing, Wife

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• The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

  David Ogilvy

  Leadership, Vocabulary, Important

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

  Alexander Pope

  Nice, Often Is, Curiosity

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.122

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• I would never make a good economist. You know, an economist is a man that can tell you anything about — well, he will tell you what can happen under any given condition — and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's, too.

  Will Rogers

  Inspiration, Economics, Liable

  "The Will Rogers Scrapbook".

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• Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Success, Work

  Henry David Thoreau (1993). “A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851”, p.25, Penguin

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• The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Motivational, Success, Men

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• Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

  Andrew Young

  Virtue, Hundred, Illegal

  Quoted in Paul Dickson, The Official Explanations (1980)

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• Quality has to be caused, not controlled.

  Phil Crosby

  Quality, Causes, Management

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• Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person - not just an employee - are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers, which leads to profitability.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Inspirational, Believe, Mean

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• A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

  Robert Reich

  Leadership, Teamwork, Long

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• No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, People, Doe

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.266

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• Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

  Ray Kroc

  Inspirational, Basketball, Good Luck

  1988 Quoted by Penny Moser 'The McDonald's Mystique', in Fortune, 4 Jul.

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• It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

  Warren Buffett

  Funny, Money, Investment Success

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