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"It's too early for my girls.... But for you...of course...whatever you require."
Chris Morris
Business, Prostitution, Power, Respect
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A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.
Henry Ford
Business
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A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Business
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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
Business
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A hard thing about business is minding your own
Business
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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.
Business
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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.
Business
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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Andy Warhol
Business
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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.
Frank Dane
Business
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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.
Business
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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.
Peter Drucker
Business
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Business is a combination of war and sport.
André Maurois
Business
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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.
Business
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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
Business
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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
Business
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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
Business
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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
Business
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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce
Business
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Cut your losses and let your profits run.
Business
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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Donald Trump
Business
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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.
B. C. Forbes
Business
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Don't open a shop unless you like to smile.
Business
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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
Ambrose Bierce
Business
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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.
Bernard Baruch
Business
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Drive your business, let not you're business drive you.
Benjamin Franklin
Business
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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Business
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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
Business
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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
Charles Baudelaire
Business
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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
Business
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
Oliver Goldsmith
Business
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I buy when other people are selling.
J. Paul Getty
Business
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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
Business
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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
Business
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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
Warren Buffett
Business
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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
Business
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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.
David Ogilvy
Business
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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.
Ross Perot
Business
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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
Business
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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?
Robert Townsend
Business
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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.
B. C. Forbes
Business
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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.
Business
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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
Harold Geneen
Business
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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.
Charles Dickens
Business
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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.
Henry Ford
Business
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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
Business
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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.
Henry Ford
Business
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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
Edmund Burke
Business
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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
Oscar Wilde
Business
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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
Harold Geneen
Business
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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
Warren Buffett
Business
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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.
Business
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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.
Ovid
Business
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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.
Robert Townsend
Business
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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
Business
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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
Woodrow Wilson
Business
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
Malcolm Forbes
Business
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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.
David Ogilvy
Business
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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
Business
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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.
Bernard Baruch
Business
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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.
Lee Iacocca
Business
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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.
Business
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Business
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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
Business
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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
Business
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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.
Raymond Chandler
Business
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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
Ronald Reagan
Business
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The business of the country is business.
Calvin Coolidge
Business
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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.
David Ogilvy
Business
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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.
Business
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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
Business
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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
Thomas J. Peters
Business
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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
Business
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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
Business
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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.
Business
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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
Plautus
Business
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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
Business
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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
Peter Drucker
Business
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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
Business
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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.
Thomas Jefferson
Business
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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
Walter Lippmann
Business
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Harold Geneen
Business
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There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
Joseph Addison
Business
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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.
William Shakespeare
Business
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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.
Fred Allen
Business
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Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.
Oliver Goldsmith
Business
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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
Edward Dahlberg
Business
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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.
J. P. Morgan
Business
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
Lee Iacocca
Business
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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.
Business
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Work is our business; it's success is God s.
Business
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
Business
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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
Harold Geneen
Business
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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.
Thomas J. Watson
Business
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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
Thomas J. Watson
Business
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