Business quotes
31 quotes. Authors include Ambrose Bierce, André Malraux, Aristotle Onassis, Charles F. Kettering, Confucius, David Rockefeller, Dee Hock, Don Marquis, Edward Gibbon, Elon Musk, Harold Geneen, Henry Ford, Howard H. Aiken, J. Paul Getty, Jack Welch, Jeff Bezos, John Kenneth Galbraith, Laurence J. Peter, Leo Rosten, Mark Twain, Mary Kay Ash, Niccolò Machiavelli, Olivier Messiaen, Peter Drucker, Ralph Abernathy, Robert Kiyosaki, Sam Walton, Theodore Isaac Rubin, Thomas Jefferson, Tom Brokaw.
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“In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.”
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“Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.”
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“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.”
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“If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.”
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“An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”
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“To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.”
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“When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.”
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“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”
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“It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.”
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“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”
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“The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.”
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“First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.”
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“Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.”
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“If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.”
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“Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.”
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“The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.”
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“There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.”
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“Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.”
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“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.”
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“The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.”
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“An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.”
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“Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.”
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“Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.”
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“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”
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“If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.”
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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
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“A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.”
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“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
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“Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.”
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“The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.”
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“No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.”