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Friday, 5 September 2008
Daily Quote:
"Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better." (Burney, Charles - Unity)

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A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.
A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.
A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
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.
A hard thing about business is minding your own
A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.
A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.
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.
Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.
Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.
Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
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.
Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.
Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.
Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.
Business is a combination of war and sport.
Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.
Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.
Business is more exciting than any game.
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
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.
Business today consists in persuading crowds.
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.
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.
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.
Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.
Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.
Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.
Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
Cut your losses and let your profits run.
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.
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.
Don't open a shop unless you like to smile.
Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.
Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickle when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.
Drive your business, let not you're business drive you.
Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
Every business is built on friendship.
Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.
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.
Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.
Feedback is the breakfast of champions.
Few great men could pass personal.
For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
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!
Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be
Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn. I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.
Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
Get the best people and train them well.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.
Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.
I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.
I buy when other people are selling.
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.
I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.
I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.
I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.
If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.
If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.
If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.
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