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Quotes

Quotes: Business

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There are five types of companies: those who make things happen, those who think they make things happen, those who watch things happen, those who wonder what happened, and those that did not know that anything had happened. Anonymous

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The real issue is value, not price. Robert T. Lindgren

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 If you think advertising doesn't pay - we understand there are twenty-five mountains in Colorado higher than Pike's Peak. Can you name one? The American Salesman

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I don't know who you are. I don't know your company. I don't know your company's product. I don't know what your company stands for. I don't know your company's customers. I don't know your company's record. I don't know your company's reputation. Now - what was it you wanted to sell me? McGraw-Hill Publications

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 There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Benjamin Disraely

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A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption on our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider on our business. He is a part of it. We are not doing him a favour by serving him. He is doing us a favour by giving us an opportunity to do so. Mahatma Gandhi

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 The consumer is not a moron. She's your wife. David Ogilvy

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Marketing consists of all activities by which a company adapts itself to its environment - creatively and profitably. Ray Carey

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 Our goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary. Sam Walton, Wal-Mart

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The only job security anybody has in this company comes from quality, productivity, and satisfied customers. Lee Iacocca, Chrysler

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 Simplicity is the soul of efficiency. Austin Freeman

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 The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. Oscar Wilde

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 You can't be proud of something unless you fought for it. Eege Klop

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 A wise man recognizes the convenience of a general statement, but he bows to the authority of a particular fact. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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 Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. Demosthenes

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 Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare. Japanese proverb

 

Quotes: Future

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The future is much like the present, only longer. Don Quisenberry

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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers

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 The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. John Sladek

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To know the read ahead, ask those coming back. Chinese proverb

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 I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. Albert Einstein

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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. Napoleon Bonaparte

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 If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. Lawrence J. Peter

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We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward. Vice President Dan Quayle

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 I am convinced that by the year 2005 Americans will spend more hours on the Internet (or whatever it is called) than watching network television .Nicholas Negroponte

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If we don't change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed. Chinese proverb

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 To manage a business well is to manage its future; and to manage the future is to manage information. Marion Harper

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 Forecasting is difficult, especially about the future. Victor Borge

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 We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur. Vice President Dan Quayle

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 Forecasting is like trying to drive a car blindfolded and following directions given by a person who is looking out of the black window. Anonymous

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 It is useless to tell a river to stop running; the best thing is to learn how to swim in the direction it is flowing. Anonymous

 

Quotes: Success

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If you can't do it better, why do it? Herbert H. Dow

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Success is that old A B C - ability, breaks and courage. Charles Luckman

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 It is no use saying 'we are doing our best'. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. Winston Churchill

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Irving Berlin

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 Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. Henry Ford

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When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but won't come up with a handful of mud either. Leo Burnett

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 To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first. William Shakespeare

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Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. Albert Einstein

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 The secret of success is constancy of purpose. Benjamin Disraeli

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Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our bottom. Michel de Montaigne

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 It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. Gore Vidal

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 The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. Jean Giraudoux

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 Plans are nothing, planning is everything. Dwight D. Eisenhower

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 Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose. Benjamin Disraeli

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 Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed - there is so little competition. Elbert Hubbard

 

Qhotes: People

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Keep changing. When you're through changing, you're through. Bruce Barton

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Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. Henri Bergson

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 Never take anything for granted. Benjamin Disraeli

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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. Harry S. Truman

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 Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it. Theodore Roosevelt

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If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time. Elbert Hubbard

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 Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. Honoré de Balzac

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There is no adequate defence, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea. Percy W. Bridgman

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 It takes time to save time. Joe Taylor

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Most people use statistics the way a drunkard uses a lamp post, more for support than illumination. Mark Twain

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 I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. Douglas Adams considered a separate function. It is the whole business seen from the point of view of its final result, that is, from the customer's point of view. Peter Drucker

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 Perhaps the reason so many people are satisfied with our automobiles is because we aren't …. Honda

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 Marketing strategy is a series of integrated actions leading to a sustainable competitive advantage. John Scully

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 Companies don't make purchases; they establish relationships. Charles S. Goodman

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 Treat the customer as an appreciating asset. Tom Peters

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 Treat the agency as an appreciating asset. Nic Alexakis

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 Marketing is merely a civilised form of warfare in which most battles are won with words, ideas and disciplined thinking. Albert W. Emery

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 Profit is the payment you get when you take advantage of change. Joseph Schumpeter

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 Any damn fool can put on a deal, but it takes genius, faith and perseverance to create a brand. David Ogilvy

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 Marketing is so basic it cannot be considered a separate function. It is the whole business seen from the point of view of its final result, that is, from the customer's point of view. Peter Drucker

 

Quotes: Science

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Where facts are few, experts are many. Donald R. Gannon

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Television - a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done. Ernie Kovacs

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 To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas Alva Edison

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While great devices are invented in the laboratory, great products are invented in the marketing department. William H. Davidow.

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 There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. Ken Olson, President, Digital Equipment, 1977

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If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $ 100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside. Robert Cringely

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 The Internet is a powerful example of free speech and the free market in action; it is curious that the Net has alarmed the lawmakers of a nation founded on those principles. Denise Caruso

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Just because something doesn' do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. Thomas Alva Edison

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 The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny …' Isaac Asimov

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If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong. Arthur C. Clarke

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 Great thoughts, discoveries, inventions have very generally been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow and established with difficulty. Paxton Hood

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 Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. Buckminster Fuller

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 Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement. Snoopy

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 I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution. Werner von Braun

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 Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. Putt's Law

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 It would appear that we have reached the limits of what is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years. John von Neumann; ca. 1949

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 I think there is a world market for about five computers. Thomas J. Watson; CEO, IBM Corporation, 1947

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 Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft …. and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labour. Werner von Braun

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 Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except for the things in the world that just don't add up. James Magary

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 Erueka! Archimedes