Business Quotes
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If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
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Writing is a long and lonesome business; back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this the page that shows the empty shell? Is it here and now that they find me out?
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I called my business manager in California and said, 'Sell all of my stock' - what little of it I had - and it's the only smart financial move I ever made.
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We're not interested to know the real heroes. We're really more interested in the villains, actually, and they seem to thrive, and it continues to be business as usual.
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When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.
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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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One clear focus for everyone. Your business needs laser focus on what the next objective is. Execution is key.
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Business is like sex. When it's good, it's very, very good; when it's not so good, it's still good.
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As a small-business man myself, I believe strongly that improving the health of small businesses is the key to improving the economy, growing the middle class, and creating innovative products and services.
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I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.
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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
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Exposure plus 95 cents might buy you a decent cup of coffee. The key is to 'position' yourself in your market as the expert, the resource, the only person your prospect would ever even THINK of doing business with, or referring to others.
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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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My business is to preach to you the beauty of suitability.
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Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.
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Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.
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He was all heart. He had the passion and it takes that passion to make something of yourself in the restaurant business.
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Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and contribution.
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Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.
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Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
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One of the things young people always ask me about is what is the secret to success. The secret is there is no secret. It's the basics. Blocking and tackling.
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You always have to give 100%,because if you don't someone, somewhere will give 100% and they will beat you when you meet.
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Actually I did not invent the seven habits, they are universal principles and most of what I wrote about is just common sense. I am embarrassed when people talk about the Covey Habits, and dislike the idea of being some sort of guru.
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It's the reality of our business.
