Great Business Quotes - Page 3

• I'm sure there are writers who are great businessmen, but I
  never met any.

  Arthur Miller

  Mets, Businessman, Great Businessman

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• Albert Murray's The Omni-Americans is the most valuable non-business book because it discusses how you have to draw upon everyone's creativity. America is a mash-up of cultures and traditions, and great businesses know how to tap the strengths of all their employees, whatever their background may be.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Book, Creativity, Mash Up

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• It's been a real success - one of the great business successes in the United States - to break down organization, to separate people too: it's part of consumerism. If you can drive people toward individual consumption, that's the highest goal in life. And furthermore, drive them into debt so they're trapped. You don't have to worry about a democracy function because people are trapped and they're alone.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Organization, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them

  Warren Buffett

  Pieces, Paper, Papers

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• I think unfortunately in this gold rush mentality that we've been in for the last years there has been not enough focus on business model quality. So when push comes to shove, there actually aren't that many great businesses that can go public. Because I think if you're going to thrive as a public company, it presupposes that you make more money than you spend.

  Chamath Palihapitiya

  Thinking, Focus, Quality

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Humor, Example

  "Comedy Central Presents", www.imdb.com. March 19, 2004.

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• I will be leaving my great business in total in order to fully focus on running America.

  Donald Trump

  Running, Order, America

  "Trump announces he will leave business ‘in total’ — leaving open how he will avoid conflicts of interest" by Drew Harwell, www.washingtonpost.com. November 30, 2016.

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• The Cheesecake Factory is a great business model, but if you take your wife there for your 25th wedding anniversary, you might not reach your 26th.

  Scott Adams

  Food, Wedding Anniversary, Wife

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• I found that the writer who says SUBLATA LUCERNA NULLUM DISCRIMEN INTER MULIERES ('when the lamp is taken away, all women are alike') says true; but without love, this great business is a vile thing.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Taken, Lamps, Found

  Giacomo Casanova (1966). “History of my life”

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• The education of the intellect is a great business; but an unconsecd intellect is the saddest sight on which the sun looks down.

  Edwin Chadwick

  Sight, Intelligence, Looks

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• Enthusiasm is the parent of enterprise. Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, someone consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in their powers, with faith in the worthwhileness of their endeavors.

  B. C. Forbes

  Confidence, Men, Organization

  "Keys to Success".

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• Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap collects the most rewards cast by the legislation-machine.

  Friedrich Naumann

  Philosophy, Struggle, Political

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• Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, Investing

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• When we talk about Donald Trump business, he has taken business bankruptcy six times. There are a lot of great businesspeople that have never taken bankruptcy once.

  Hillary Clinton

  Taken, Six, Trump

  Source: time.com

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• We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating.They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Entrepreneur, Leader, Needs

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• People who instinctively establish a strong network of relationships have always created great businesses.

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Strong, People

  Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2014). “Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.18, Crown Business

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• In Cuba, what we do not accept is the comparison of our participatory democracy with bourgeois democracy which has not solved anything for humanity. The only thing it has done is to take humanity towards a precarious point. They have created the environmental crisis, the food crisis, the water crisis and the pandemics all over the world. The reason for that is because they have taken the majority of the resources and given it to militarism paid for by the western powers because it is a great business for them; this is the real truth.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Real, Taken, Water

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Every great business leader I've ever met, in addition to being very smart, very driven, they have this, 'Why not me? Screw it, I deserve it, let's go.' And if you don't have that, you can't achieve greatness.

  Donny Deutsch

  Smart, Greatness, Leader

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• The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.

  A. N. Wilson

  Jobs, Men, Marketing

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• A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.

  Charlie Munger

  Fairs, Superiors

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• I'm going to start a lot of companies. These are not sham companies. These are great businesses.

  Eric Lefkofsky

  Company

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• I want to get just as many people ready for Heaven as I can. Hell is a place where there is 'weeping and gnashing of teeth'; Heaven is a place of joy, happiness and no tears . . . Being a soul winner is greater than being a preacher or a great doctor or a great dentist or a great businessman. Let's get people ready for Heaven.

  Lee Roberson

  Doctors, People, Joy

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• Unless your campaign has a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night.

  David Ogilvy

  Night, Ideas, Marketing

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• We've been in the Mac software business for more than 20 years. And it's been a great business for us.

  Scott Erickson

  Years, Macs, Software

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• ...realize in your daily life that 'matter' is merely an aggregation of protons and electrons subject entirely to the control of Mind; that your environment, your success, your happiness, are all of your own making... All wealth depends upon a clear understanding of the fact that mind- thought - is the only creator. The great business of life is thinking. Control your thoughts and you control circumstance.

  Robert Collier

  Thinking, Understanding, Mind

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