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Henry Ford
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| "A dinner lubricates business." | |
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Lord Stowell
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| "A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded
on friendship." | |
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John D. Rockefeller
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| "A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He
must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing." | |
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Charles Michael Schwab
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| "American business can out-think, out-work, out-perform any nation in
the world. But we can"t beat the competition if we don"t get in the ball
game." | |
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George Herbert Walker Bush
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| "American business men must learn human nature to the point of
accepting as necessary the Rabble Rouser of the Right.... To get fast
action somebody must stir millions to genuine anger over conditions which
are adversely affecting their lives." | |
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Walter B. Pitkin
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| "Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to make a better
article." | |
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Alice Hubbard
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| "As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the
truth." | |
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John Greenleaf Whittier
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| "As long as you"re green, you"re growing; as soon as you"re ripe you
start to rot." | |
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Ray Kroc
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| "Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art." | |
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Andy Warhol
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| "Business dispatched is business well done, But business hurried is
business ill done." | |
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Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
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| "Business is a combination of war and sport." | |
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Andre Maurois
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| "Business is really more agreeable than pleasure: it interests the
whole mind ... but it does not look as if it did." | |
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Walter Bagehot
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| "Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with
the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in
foresight." | |
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Henry R. Luce
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| "Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business." | |
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Maria Edgeworth
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| "Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is
candy." | |
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Charles F. Abbott
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| "Cannibals prefer those who have no spines." | |
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Stanislaw Lem
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| "Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as
you do." | |
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George Burns
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| "Don"t steal; thou?lt never thus compete successfully in business.
Cheat." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the
idealist in him." | |
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Woodrow Wilson
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| "Every young man would do well to remember that all successful
business stands on the foundation of morality." | |
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Henry Ward Beecher
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| "Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell
or destroy." | |
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Marshall Field
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| "He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his
place." | |
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Saville
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| "He who will not apply himself to business, eventually discovers that
he means to get his bread by cheating, stealing, or begging, or else is
wholly void of reason." | |
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Ischomachus
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| "Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous
consumer." | |
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Lestor G. Maddox
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| "I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs." | |
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David Ogilvy
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| "I do not believe you can do today"s job with yesterday"s methods and
be in business tomorrow." | |
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Nelson Jackson
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| "I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather
cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me." | |
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John Cleese
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| "I like business because it is competitive, because it rewards deeds
rather than words. I like business because it compels earnestness and does
not permit me to neglect today"s task while thinking about tomorrow. I like
business because it undertakes to please, not reform; because it is
honestly selfish, thereby avoiding hypocrisy and sentimentality. I like
business because it promptly penalizes mistakes, shiftlessness and
inefficiency, while rewarding well those who give it the best they have in
them. Lastly, I like business because each day is a fresh adventure." | |
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R. H. Cabell
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| "I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not
rather a new wearer of clothes." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "I was told to avoid the business all together because of the
rejection. People would say to me, "Don"t you want to have a normal job
and a normal family?" I guess that would be good advice for some people,
but I wanted to act." | |
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Jennifer Aniston
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| "If we are to have a stabilized market demand, selling pressure
should be maintained ... perhaps increased ...at the first sign of a
decline in business. I know of no single way business managers can do more
to stabilize market demand than through greater stabilization of sales and
advertising expenditures." | |
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Paul G. Hoffman
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| "If you bet on a horse, that"s gambling. If you bet you can make
three spades, that"s entertainment. If you bet cotton will go up three
points, that"s business. See the difference?" | |
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William F. (Blackie) Sherrod
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| "If you can build a business up big enough, it"s respectable." | |
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Will Rogers
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| "If you don"t drive your business, you will be driven out of
business." | |
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B. C. Forbes
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| "In business, as most of it is constituted today, a man becomes
valuable only as he recognizes the relation of his work to that of all his
associates. One worker more or less makes little difference to most big
organizations, and any man may be replaced. It is the cumulative effort
that counts." | |
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W. Alton Jones
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| "In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it
is the honest man who doesn"t know what he is doing." | |
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William Wordsworth
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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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Harold S. Geneen
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| "In war, the stronger overcomes the weaker. In business, the stronger
imparts strength to the weaker." | |
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Claude Frédéric Bastiat
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| "It takes more than Capital to swing business. You"ve got to have the
A. I. D. degree to get by?Advertising, Initiative and Dynamics." | |
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Ren Mulford, Jr.
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| "Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy
purses." | |
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George Chapman
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| "Let"s form multi-disciplinary task forces to reengineer our core
processes until we"re a world class organization." | |
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Ratbert
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| "Many blunder in business through inability or an unwillingness to
adopt new ideas. I have seen many a success turn to failure also, because
the thought which should be trained on big things is cluttered up with the
burden- some detail of little things." | |
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Philip S. Delaney
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| "Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well
as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction." | |
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Owen D. Young
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| "My son is now an "entrepreneur." That"s what you"re called when you
don"t have a job." | |
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Ted Turner
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| "Never shrink from doing anything which your business calls you to
do. The man who is above his business may one day find his business above
him." | |
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Drew
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| "No business which depends for its existence on paying less than
living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this
country." | |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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| "Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented,
clerking is the worst." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "One of the greatest business leaders in America today, James F.
Oates of the Equitable Life, said this about factors which he said were
necessary to develop us into real eminence in any field. He said: Whatever
may be the nature of our work, or the character of our own vocational
activity, eminence always involves the following: [And then he named four
factors, and I want you to mark them.] 1. You must have the determination
to excel. 2. You must have the willingness [And I want you to mark this.]
to pay the price, to study, to live through disappointments with optimism,
and to accept the sacrifices necessary to succeed. [Now, do you get the
significance of that?] 3. You must have the steadfast pursuit of purpose,
doing the work day after day, week after week, yes, year after year,
whether you feel like doing it or not. 4. You must have pride and faith in
the virtue of your calling. [That is to say, spiritual motivation.] (James
F. Oates, Address before the YMCA at Los Angeles, California, April 15,
1960.)" | |
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Harold B. Lee
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| "Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away
products." | |
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Scott McNealy
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| "Public relations, in this country, is the art of adapting big
business to a democracy so that the people have confidence that they are
being well served and at the same time the business has freedom to serve
them well." | |
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Arthur W. Page
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| "Sometimes during the two-year curriculum, every MBA student ought to
hear it clearly stated that numbers, techniques, and analysis are all side
matters. What is central to business is the joy of creating." | |
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Peter Robinson
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| "Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitude
than by mental capacities." | |
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Walter Dill Scott
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| "Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude
even than by mental capacities." | |
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Sir Walter Scott
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| "Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business
quickly." | |
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Aldus Manutius
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| "The art of winning in business is in working hard ? not taking
things too seriously." | |
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Elbert Hubbard
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| "The business of America is business." | |
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John Calvin Coolidge
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| "The businessman only wants two things said about his company?what he
pays his public relations people to say and what he pays his advertising
people to say. He doesn"t like anybody ever to look above, beyond or over
that." | |
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Don Hewitt
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| "The difference in companies is people. I would rather have a
first-class manager running a second-rate business than a second-class
manager running a first-rate business." | |
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Jack E. Reichert
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| "The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they"ve had
a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top." | |
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Harry S. Truman
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| "The first mistake in public business is the going into it." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the
business known as gambling." | |
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Ambrose Bierce
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| "The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and
influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of
baggage to carry through life." | |
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John Hancock
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| "The incestuous relationship between government and big business
thrives in the dark." | |
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Jack Anderson
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| "The man who attends strictly to his business usually has plenty of
business to attend to." | |
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Unknown
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| "The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old
just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is
better." | |
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Robert P. Vanderpoel
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| "The secret of business is to know something that nobody else
knows." | |
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Aristotle Onassis
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| "The success and ultimately the survival of every business, large or
small, depends in the last analysis on its ability to develop people. This
ability is not measured by any of our conventional yardsticks of economic
success; yet, is the final measurement." | |
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Peter F. Drucker
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| "The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with
his business before his competitors do." | |
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Roy L. Smith
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| "The world of antitrust is reminiscent of Alice?s Wonderland:
everything seemingly is, yet apparently isn?t, simultaneously. It is a
world in which competition is lauded as the basic axiom and guiding
principle, yet "too much" competition is condemned as "cutthroat." It is a
world in which actions designed to limit competition are branded as
criminal when taken by businessmen, yet praised as "enlightened" when
initiated by the government. It is a world in which the law is so vague
that businessmen have no way of knowing whether specific actions will be
declared illegal until they hear the judge?s verdict after the
fact." | |
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Alan Greenspan
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| "There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel,
and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business." | |
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James Russell Lowell
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| "There"s no place like home, there"s no place like home, there"s no
place like home." | |
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Frank L. Baum
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| "Those who believe that we have reached the limit of business
progress and employment opportunity in this country are like the farmer
who had two windmills and pulled one down because he was afraid there was
not enough wind for both." | |
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Morris S. Tremaine
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| "To business that we love we rise betime, And go to"t with
delight." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "To prosper soundly in business, you must satisfy not only your
customers, but you must lay yourself out to satisfy also the men who make
your product and the men who sell it." | |
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Harry Bassett
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| "To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as
you see them." | |
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John H. Patterson
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| "Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American
businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics." | |
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Mason Cooley
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| "We demand that big business give people a square deal; in return we
must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to
do right, he shall himself he given a square deal." | |
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Theodore Roosevelt
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| "We have yet to find a significant case where the company did not
move in the direction of the chief executive"s home." | |
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Ken Patton
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| "We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it
was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed
feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish
slavery." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "We [Microsoft] don"t have a monopoly. We have market share. There"s
a difference." | |
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Steve Ballmer
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| "What synchronism means to a clock, a convention means to our
organization; it enables those of us who are behind to catch up and get in
step with the others." | |
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Thomas J. Watson
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| "When he who hears doesn"t know what he who speaks means, and when he
who speaks doesn"t know what he himself means ? that is philosophy." | |
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Francois Voltaire
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| "Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks
where commerce long prevails." | |
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Oliver Goldsmith
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| "You can make more friends in two months by becoming genuinely
interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get
other people interested in you." | |
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Dale Carnegie
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| "You can"t operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate
fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do
nothing." | |
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Steve Ross
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| "You generally hear that what a man doesn"t know doesn"t hurt him,
but in business what a man doesn"t know does hurt." | |
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E. St. Elmo Lewis
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