Business

(40 votes)   Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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(40 votes)   The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings. Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events. They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Patrick Donovan
British Financial Journalist

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(40 votes)   The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Dorothy Nevill

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(40 votes)   The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Harold Hook
American Businessman, CEO of American General

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(40 votes)   You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Harold Geneen Ceo

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(39 votes)   I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Kim Basinger
1953-, American Actress

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(39 votes)   If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

H. Ross Perot
1930-, American Businessman & Politician, Founder EDS

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(39 votes)   quality attracts quality

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(39 votes)   The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Derby Brown

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(39 votes)   The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Erwin Frand

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(39 votes)   What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Nicholas Dewolf
American Businessman, Founder, Teradyne, Inc.

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(38 votes)   If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

B. C. Forbes
1880-1954, American Publisher

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(38 votes)   You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

E. St. Elmo Lewis

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(37 votes)   Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Roger Smith
American Businessman, CEO of GM

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(37 votes)   As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Paul Hawken
American Businessman, Founder of Smith & Hawken

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