Business Quotes - Page 29

• If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Educational, Inspiring Customer Service

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Motivational, Happiness, Work

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.396, Lulu.com

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• We are currently not planning on conquering the world.

  Sergey Brin

  Crazy, Entrepreneur, World

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• There's no business like show business.

  Irving Berlin

  Office Work, Berlin, Shows

  Title of song (1946)

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• Success is not necessarily about connections, or cutting corners, or chamba - the three Cs of bad business. Call it trite, but believe me: success can be achieved through hard work, frugality, integrity, responsiveness to change, and most of all, boldness to dream.

  John Gokongwei

  Dream, Integrity, Believe

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• Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as the firms look to advance their technology.

  Henry Chesbrough

  Technology, Ideas, Innovation

  "Clean 15 Series: Can Open Innovation Save Canadian Clean Technology?", www.cbj.ca.

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• My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Mom, Mother Daughter, Conceited

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

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• Don't cheat yourself out of music. Music is one thing. The music business is another thing. Save enough of yourself to keep living anyway. Save enough joy in your heart to enjoy it. Let your reward be in the doing of it.

  Bill Withers

  Music, Cheating, Heart

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• Being rich isn't about money. Being rich is a state of mind. Some of us, no matter how much money we have, will never be free enough to take time to stop and eat the heart of the watermelon. And some of us will be rich without ever being more than a paycheck ahead of the game.

  Harvey Mackay

  Money, Freedom, Heart

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• Pluck from under the family all the props which religion and morality have given it, strip it of the glamour, true or false, cast round it by romance, it will still remain a prosaic, indisputable fact, that the whole business of begetting, bearing and rearing children, is the most essential of all the nation's businesses.

  Eleanor Rathbone

  Family, Children, Romance

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• Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.

  Martha Stewart

  Integrity, Work, People

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• Until I came to IBM, I probably would have told you that culture was just one among several important elements in any organization's makeup and success - along with vision, strategy, marketing, financials, and the like... I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.

  Lou Gerstner

  Makeup, Games, Organization

  "Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround". Book by Louis V. Gerstner Jr., 2002.

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• What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Success, Congratulations, Famous Inspirational

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

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• If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  'Epistulae ad Lucilium' letter 71, sect. 3

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• Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Motivational, Leadership, Men

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• The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Military, Fidgeting

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• The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.

  Milton Friedman

  Freedom, Party, Important

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  The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Life, Motivational

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• Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.

  Bill Gates

  Funny, Success, Would Be

  "Why I Hate Spam" by Bill Gates, www.wsj.com. June 23, 2003.

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• I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

  Alan Greenspan

  Success, New York, Knowledge

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• The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

  Walter Lippmann

  Leadership, Common Sense, Grace

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.500, Harvard University Press

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• I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!

  Jay-Z

  Men, Entrepreneur, Insightful

  Song: Diamonds From Sierra Leone

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• I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

  Colonel Sanders

  Life, Motivational, Determination

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

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• The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

  Tom Peters

  Inspirational, Educational, Successful

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