962 private quotes tagged business

“This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.” — Bill Gates

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“Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.” — Plato

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“I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.” — Henry Ford

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“Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.” — Thomas J. Watson

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“Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.” — Ronald Reagan

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“Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.” — Bobby Darin

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“Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.” — Edgar R. Fiedler

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“More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.” — Rose Kennedy

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“Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.” — Edward Gibbon

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“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.” — Laurence J. Peter

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“I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.” — John Cleese

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“Business is a combination of war and sport.” — Andre Maurois

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“Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.” — David Ogilvy

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“Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.” — Scott Adams

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“Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

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“Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.” — Scott Adams

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

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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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“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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“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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