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Quotes by Businessman

"The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be."

"Look, moonI turned silver for you."

"Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement."

"When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors."

"I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps."

"I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way."

"The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability."


"On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I 'step aside' as CEO of GM, and so I have."


"Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins."

"If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers."


"I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board."

"People want economy and they will pay any price to get it."


"A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son."

"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."

"I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one."

"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."

"We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give."

"It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance."


"This is a game that's going to play as long as you're playing it. It's never going to end. It'll go until I retire, and when the next person has the job, they'll be on it too."

"The same Source that gave you the idea, will give you the means to see it through."


"Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation."

"Salesmanship is limitless. Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople."

"Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process."


"If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic."

"Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs."

"People everywhere love Windows."


"High expectations are the key to everything."

"I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon."

"We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many."

"If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big."


"Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation."

"The last thing you want to do, unless it's a very unusual situation, is to invest money."

"A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way."

"The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that."


"You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott."

"What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form."

"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."

"A good ad which is not run never produces sales."

"In fact, Tibet is one of the most popular European tourist attraction of asia."

"Education: A debt due from present to future generations."

"We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways."

"The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen."

"Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals."

"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy."
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