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Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
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Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to Dispatch than Method.
Author: Lord Chesterfield
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.
Author: David Ricardo
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Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man has a moral right to withhold his support from an organization that is striving to improve conditions within his sphere.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
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criminal, n. A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
Author: Howard Scott
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Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.
Author: Jean Giradoux
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Live together like brothers, and do business like strangers.
Author: Anonymous
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If you can build a business up big enough, it is respectable.
Author: Will Rogers
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The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
Author: Edgar R. Fiedler
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Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
Author: Gary Ryan Blair
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Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
Author: Norman Cousins
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A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.).
Author: Dale Dauten
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Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
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If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Author: Kahlil Gibran
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If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.
Author: Lee Iacocca
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The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' -a leader says, 'Let's go!'.
Author: E. M. Kelly
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Diamonds are forever. E-mail comes close.
Author: June Kronholz
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The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
Author: Blaine Lee
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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
Author: Andre Maurois
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I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.
Author: Ralph Nader
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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service, by the idea that "he profits most who serves best," and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying. -B. F. Harris.
Author: B. F. Harris
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I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
Author: Sir Edward Appleton
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
Author: Josh Billings
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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.
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
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Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard).
Author: Edgar R. Fiedler
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If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
Author: B. C. Forbes
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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.
Author: Harold S. Geneen
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It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.
Author: Charles A. Jaffe
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Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Author: Steve Jobs
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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Author: Charles F. Kettering
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People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'.
Author: Sinclair Lewis
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Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.
Author: Scott Mcnealy
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The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
Author: Elting E. Morison
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I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.
Author: David Ogilvy
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He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
Author: Dorothy Parker
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There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist - the taxidermist leaves the hide.
Author: Mortimer Caplin
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It's time to reappreciate the original software: paper.
Author: Dale Dauten
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In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes.
Author: John Erksine
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One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Author: Arnold H. Glasow
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The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Author: Theodore Hesburgh
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When someone gives the hospital a gift of $5 and you know he can afford less than that, thank him profusely. When someone gives the hospital a gift of $5,000 and you know he could afford five times that, say "that will help." -Robert H. Schullder.
Author: Robert H. Schullder
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If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires. -Abigail Van Buren.
Author: Abigail Van Buren
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Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Author: Lord Acton
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.
Author: Richard Nelson Bolles
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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.
Author: J. Paul Getty
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