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x It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.   Harold Geneen      
x Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!   Christian Nevell Bovee      
x It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.   Henry Ford      
x Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.   Bernard Baruch      
x Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.   Robert Louis Stevenson      
x Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.          
x It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.   Oscar Wilde      
x I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.   Harold Geneen      
x Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.          
x If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.   Benjamin Franklin      
x I buy when other people are selling.   J. Paul Getty      
x The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.   Thomas J. Peters      
x Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.   Winston Churchill      
x Business is a combination of war and sport.   André Maurois      
x It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.   Harold Geneen      
x Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.   Ambrose Bierce      
x If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.   David Ogilvy      
x The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.   Ronald Reagan      
x The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.   Harold Geneen      
x No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.   Earl of Chesterfield      
x In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.     American Proverb    
x Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.   William Blake      
x Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.   William Penn      
x You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.   Thomas J. Watson      
x In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.   Harold Geneen      
x A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.   Alexander Herzen      
x It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.   Henry Ford      
x The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.   Thomas Jefferson      
x A hard thing about business is minding your own          
x A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.   Henry Ford      
x The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.   Adam Smith      
x Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.   Ralph Waldo Emerson      
x When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.     Proverb    
x The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.          
x Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.   Ross Perot      
x To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.   William Shakespeare      
x Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.          
x Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.   Frank Dane      
x The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.   David Ogilvy      
x Work is our business; it's success is God s.     German Proverb    
x Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.   Robert Townsend      
x If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.   Charles Kettering      
x If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.   Ross Perot      
x Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.   Henry Ford      
x The purpose of a business is to create a customer.   Peter Drucker      
x Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.   Charles Dickens      
x I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.   Henry Ford      
x The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.   Ralph Waldo Emerson      
x If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.   B. C. Forbes      
x The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.   William Hazlitt      
x The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.   Josh Billings      
x Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.   Malcolm Forbes      
x Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.   Oliver Goldsmith      
x So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.   Benjamin Franklin      
x Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.   Fred Allen      
x It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.   Edmund Burke      
x Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.   Ambrose Bierce      
x The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.   David Ogilvy      
x Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.   Jean Baudrillard      
x People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.          
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