Business

(37 votes)   Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Peter Rena

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(37 votes)   Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Charles Dickens
1812-1870, British Novelist

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(37 votes)   It's the economy, stupid.

Bill Clinton
1946-, Forty-second President of the USA

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(37 votes)   More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Jim Cathcart
American Author, Lecturer

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(37 votes)   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
1778-1830, British Essayist

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(37 votes)   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.

John Pierpont Morgan
1837-1913, American Banker, Financier, Art Collector

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(36 votes)   Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Peter F. Drucker
1909-, American Management Consultant, Author

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(36 votes)   You can't run a business without taking risks.

Millard Drexler
American Business Executive, President, The Gap

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(35 votes)   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.

Louis B. Lundborg

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(35 votes)   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
1888-1959, American Author

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(34 votes)   A hard thing about business is minding your own

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(34 votes)   Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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(34 votes)   Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(34 votes)   There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Randall Jacobs

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(33 votes)   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.

General Robert E. Woods
President, Sears, Roebuck

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