Business

(290 votes)   Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Edward Dahlberg
1900-1977, American Author, Critic

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(238 votes)   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
1757-1827, British Poet, Painter

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(233 votes)   We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

H. V. Adolt

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(215 votes)   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
18?-1956, American Businessman, Founder of IBM

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(206 votes)   Don't open a shop unless you like to smile.

Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin

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(197 votes)   Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.

Tommy Steele

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(179 votes)   Business today consists in persuading crowds.

Gerald Stanley Lee

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(171 votes)   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.

Aristotle Onassis
1906-1975, Turkish Born Shipping Magnate

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(171 votes)   What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Charles E. Wilson
1886-1972, American Corporate Executive

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(157 votes)   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 S. Geneen
1910-, American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT

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(154 votes)   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
1946-, American Businessman

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(150 votes)   Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Robert Galvin

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(147 votes)   Location, location, location.

William Dillard
American Businessman, Founder of Dillard's Department Store

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(141 votes)   The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Michael E. Gerber
American Businessman, Consultant, Author, Trainer

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(133 votes)   Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Royal Little
American Businessman, Founder of Textron

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