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Quotes by Businessman
"With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly."
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"Do you know how many plastic surgeries are done to the actors and actresses in Hollywood?"
37
"When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either."
37
"Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value."
37
"Nobody alive today can tell me how much I am worth. I change that everyday."
37
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy."
37
"Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped."
37
"People want economy and they will pay any price to get it."
37
"No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming."
37
"The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body."
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"The same Source that gave you the idea, will give you the means to see it through."
37
"A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge."
37
"I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity."
37
"Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief."
37
"The key is growth margins went in the right direction, unit volume increased quarter on quarter, and expenses came down. We threw off over $300 million in cash. All of those were in the right direction. So I think we're on our way."
37
"I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress."
37
"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste."
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"You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you."
37
"There is an equation that I like to use when looking at my life's progress: Current Worth - Past Worth = Progress or Regression."
37
"I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about."
37
"It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up."
37
"Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it."
37
"A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way."
37
"Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real."
36
"Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s."
36
"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."
36
"Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals."
36
"To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings."
36
"Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products."
36
"I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation."
36
"How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law."
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"Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it."
36
"If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse."
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"The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different."
36
"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows."
36
"My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too."
36
"If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right."
36
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."
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