962 private quotes tagged business

“The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.” — Arthur C. Clarke

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“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.” — Colin Powell

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“I buy when other people are selling.” — J. Paul Getty

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“In business for yourself, not by yourself.” — William James

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“I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.” — Lord Acton

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“Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.” — Leo Burnett

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“The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.” — Michael Korda

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“I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.” — Brian Clough

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“Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.” — Jane Austen

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“When you're eight years old nothing is your business.” — Lenny Bruce

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“Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.” — Scott McNealy

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“Music and the music business are two different things.” — Erykah Badu

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“It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.” — Katharine Hepburn

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“My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.” — Phyllis Diller

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“I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.” — Donald Trump

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“The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'” — Orison Swett Marden

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“I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.” — Lucille Ball

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“I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.” — Elvis Presley

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“The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.” — William James

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“I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.” — H. P. Lovecraft

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“I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.” — Margaret Thatcher

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“Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.” — Zig Ziglar

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“The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.” — Andrew Jackson

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“One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.” — Carroll O'Connor

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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

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