Owners Quotes - Page 35

• A leadership culture is one where everyone thinks like an owner, a CEO or a managing director. It's one where everyone is entrepreneurial and proactive.

  Robin Sharma

  Thinking, Directors, Culture

  Robin Sharma (2006). “The Greatness Guide: One of the World's Most Successful Coaches Shares His Secrets for Personal and Business Mastery”, p.21, Jaico Publishing House

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• Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have caught the experts, whether in government or on the outside, completely by surprise. Business owners with comparable performance records go bust. Brokers lose their clients. Physicians get sued for malpractice. Yet think-tankers and policy wonks continue to opine, never pausing to reflect on-or apologize for-their spotty records.

  Andrew Bacevich

  Spring, Thinking, Government

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• The idea that a relatively fixed group of privileged people might shape the economy and government for their own benefit goes against the American grain. Nevertheless, the owners and top-level managers in large income-producing properties are far and away the dominant power figures in the United States. Their corporations, banks, and agribusinesses come together as a corporate community that dominates the federal government in Washington. Their real estate, construction, and land development companies form growth coalitions that dominate most local governments.

  G. William Domhoff

  Real, Land, Ideas

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• It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Smell, Our Words, Tools

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• If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.

  Hammurabi

  Fall, House, Doe

  Hammurabi (1996). “The Code of Hammurabi”, p.80, Library of Alexandria

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• I believe that a lot of progress has been achieved to address gender inequality: We have moved from a time where women in the US could not apply for credit card without their husband's signature to a time where women are the owners of their businesses.

  Zainab Salbi

  Husband, Believe, Progress

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I surround myself with loyalists and people that I would die for. I just would rather die than make bad stuff for people because I'm a terrible dishwasher and a terrible lover and a terrible pet owner.

  Dan Harmon

  People, Pet, Stuff

  "Dan Harmon Talks RICK AND MORTY, Working for Adult Swim, Animation vs Live-Action, COMMUNITY, and Much More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 27, 2013.

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• Experience shows that nothing is operated with less economy and with more waste of labor and material of every kind than public services and undertakings. Private enterprise on the other hand naturally induces the owner to work with the greatest economy in his own interest.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Hands, Waste, Kind

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.157, VM eBooks

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• What's fascinating . . .is that you could now have a business that might have been selling for $10 billion where the business itself could probably not have borrowed even $100 million. But the owners of that business, because its public, could borrow many billions of dollars on their little pieces of paper- because they had these market valuations. But as a private business, the company itself couldn't borrow even 1/20th of what the individuals could borrow.

  Charlie Munger

  Pieces, Paper, Littles

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• Berkshire has the lowest turnover of any major company in the U.S.The Walton family owns more of Wal-Mart than Buffett owns of Berkshire, so it isn't because of large holdings. It's because we have a really unusual shareholder body that thinks of itself as owners and not holders of little pieces of paper.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Pieces, Paper

  "Berkshire Behind the Scenes: Part 3". Interview with Rick Casterline, www.fool.com. May 30, 2006.

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• The basic concept of value to a private owner and being motivated when you're buying and selling securities by reference to intrinsic value instead of price momentum - I don't think that will ever be outdated.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Momentum, Buying

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• I'm constantly amazed that owners and managers of all businesses don't train their people to call the person who pays by credit card by name. It definitely makes the customer feel good and will be a factor in bringing them back to your place of business.

  Zig Ziglar

  Names, People, Feel Good

  "Zig On... Don't Miss This Opportunity" by Zig Ziglar on his web site, May 25, 2010.

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• A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.

  Dan Jenkins

  Lying, Team, Party

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• The eyes of the owner can see what no one else can see.

  James Cook

  Eye

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• A business owner who is liberal probably inherited the business.

  James Cook

  Business Owners

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• If the owner of a franchise is approached and promised good money for his team to lose an irrelevant game, he tells his players to lose the game and they don't care because they get paid huge amounts anyway.

  Rashid Latif

  Team, Player, Games

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• Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?

  Albert Einstein

  Jesus, Abuse, Selfishness

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.24, Open Road Media

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• He who before was the money owner, now strides in front as capitalist; the possessor of labor-power follows as his laborer. The one with an air of importance, smirking, intent on business; the other hesitant, like one who is bringing his own hide to market and has nothing to expect but a hiding.

  Karl Marx

  Air, Hiding, Importance

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• The populist zeal to seek revenge on those who make a lot of money is targeted almost exclusively at corporations. I haven't heard outcries about Hollywood actors who make millions per film, even when those movies are a bust at the box office and the talent at issue has none. There's no outrage over athletes like New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez's $33 million salary or Celtic power forward Kevin Garnett's $25 million. Nor should there be. These are exceptionally talented individuals whose teams' owners think they're worth every penny.

  Linda Chavez

  New York, Revenge, Team

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• Manchester City are built on sand and I don't mean that because their owners are from the Arab countries.

  Kevin Keegan

  Country, Mean, Cities

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• The journalist's first allegiance is to those who receive the work. Although there is no doubt that many owners and business managers of news organizations also have a deep allegiance to the public, that allegiance is necessarily alloyed with their concern for their own point of view or for the bottom line.

  Bill Kovach

  Organization, Views, Doubt

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• A car alarm is a way for a car to tell everyone that its owner is an asshole.

  Demetri Martin

  Car, Alarms, Way

  Twitter post from Oct 03, 2011

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• It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the dog's owner - and the distance you are from your car.

  Demetri Martin

  Dog, Distance, Fighting

  Twitter post from Jun 07, 2012

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• Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture and the people. They've been stolen from the people and now the stolen things are being returned to their owners, but I don't think their owners should be grateful to receive them.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Grateful, Thinking, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Fake titties are inversely proportioned to their owners level of self esteem. This being said, part of me loves them.

  Dov Davidoff

  Self Esteem, Fake, Levels

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Feb 29, 2012

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