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8/2/2019 Business Thoughts

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Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.

--C. Wright Mills

e are all manufacturers-making good, making trouble or making excuses.

y --H. V. Adolt y R ate

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No legitimate business man ever got started on the road to permanent success by any other means than that of hard, intelligent work, coupled with an earned credit, plus character.

y --F.D. Van Amburgh y R ate

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Professionals are people who can do their job when they dont feel like it. Amateurs are peoplewho cant do their job when they do feel like it.

y --Anonymous y R ate

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The person who minds nobodys business but his own is probably a millionaire.

y --Anonymous y R ate

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The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.

y --Marcus Aurelius Antoninus y R ate

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Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary, but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.

y --Aristotle y R ate

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Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of hisreligion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his businesshas a business life of no character.

y --Maltbie Babcock y R

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In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

y --Francis Bacon y R ate

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Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature

of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did. y --Walter Bagehot y R ate

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Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesomeand experimental without making fools of ourselves.

y --Bernard M. Baruch y R ate

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There is too much emphasis on the alleged need for more purchasing power. What the countryneeds stable purchasing power. Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemploymentinsurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.

y --Bernard M. Baruch y R ate

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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. y --Harry Bassett y R ate

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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individualresponsibility.


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y --Ambrose Bierce y R ate

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If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be

something wrong, either with you or with your business. y --William J.H. Boetcker y R ate

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Life is too short to be unhappy in business. If business were not a part of the joy of living, wemight almost say that we have no right to live, because it is a pretty poor man who cannot getinto the line for which he is fitted.

y --George L. Brown y R

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I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am noinvestor.

y --Warren Buffett y R ate

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When a manager with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad

economics, the reputation of the business remains intact. y --Warren Buffett y R ate

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The humanities of business in this age have become more important than the techniques of business. Each business and industry has to sweep the public misunderstandings and the falsenotions off its own front walk. Thus will a pathway be cleared for popular appreciation of theimportant rule of business in our freedom and in our way of life.

y --Harry A. Bullis y R ate Comment

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 todays task whilethinking about tomorrow. I like business because it undertakes to please, not reform; because it ishonestly selfish, thereby avoiding hypocrisy and sentimentality. I like business because it


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promptly penalizes mistakes, shiftlessness and inefficiency, while rewarding well those who giveit the best they have in them. Lastly, I like business because each day is a fresh adventure.

y --R .H. Cabell y R ate

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Business is always a struggle. There are always obstacles and competitors. There is never anopen road, except the wide road that leads to failure. Every great success has always beenachieved by fight. Every winner has scars.... The men who succeed are the efficient few. Theyare the few who have the ambition and will-power to develop themselves.

y --Herbert N. Casson y R ate

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The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securingthe consumers dollar before the other fellow gets it.

y --Stuart Chase y R ate

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The American business man cannot consider his work done when he views the income balancein black at the end of an accounting period. It is necessary for him to trace the social incidence of the figures that appear in his statement and prove to the general public that his management hasnot only been profitable in the accounting sense but salutary in terms of popular benefits.

y --Colby M. Chester y R ate

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Few people do business well who do nothing else.

y --Lord Chesterfield y R ate

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Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but feware those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon.

y --Winston Churchill y R ate

My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, andnot the house to the owner.


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y --Cicero y Anyone who says businessmen deal only in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year

projections. y --Malcolm Forbes

Economists unanimity that bad business is ahead is the most reassuring news possible. Its veryunlikely that this will be the one time theyre right.

y --Malcolm Forbes y R ate

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In business, theres such a thing as an invaluable person, but no such thing as an indispensableone.

y --Malcolm Forbes

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratchingfor what it gets.

y --Henry Ford y R ate

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Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

y --Benjamin Franklin y R

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No nation was ever ruined by trade.

y --Benjamin Franklin y R ate

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The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

y --Benjamin Franklin y R ate Comment

Business is the salt of life.

y --Thomas Fuller y R ate


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All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges,churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music, or anything else that wevalue.

y --Cassius E. Gates y R ate

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The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights.

y --J. Paul Getty y R ate

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As you cherish the things most worthwhile in your family life, cherish the things mostworthwhile in your company.

y --William B. Given Jr. y R ate

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It is the customer, and the customer alone, who casts the vote that determines how big anycompany should be.... The regulations laid down by the consuming public are far more potentand far less flexible than any code of law, merely through the exercise of the natural forces of trade.

y --Crawford H. Greenewalt y R ate

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A tired businessman is one whose business is usually not a successful one.

y --Joseph R . Grundy y R ate

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The more people who own little businesses of their own, the safer our country will be, and the better off its cities and towns; for the people who have a stake in their country and their community are its best citizens.

y --John Hancock y R ate

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What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.

y --R ichard Harkness y R ate

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I have found [public relations] to be the craft of arranging truths so that people will like you.Public-relations specialists make flower arrangements of the facts, placing them so that thewilted and less attractive petals are hidden by the sturdy blooms.

y --Alan Harrington y R ate

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The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, whoargue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things

ought to be. y --William Hazlit

y --R alph Hendershot y R ate

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A companys business would increase 50% if you cleared the conference room of chairs.

y --W.F. Heneghan y R

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The are more goods bought by the heart then by the head.

y --George Henning y R ate

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Great business turns on a little pin.

y --George Herbert y R ate Comment

All mens gains are the fruit of venturing.

y --Herodotus

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