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Jai Ganesh

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Business Quotes - VIII

Business Quotes - VIII

1. I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king's business. - Isaac Newton

2. When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone. - Magic Johnson

3. The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you. - Charles Dickinson

4. If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you. - Zig Ziglar

5. It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. - Mahatma Gandhi

6. It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition. - Aristotle

7. I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. - Richard M. Nixon

8. Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business. - Francis Bacon

9. There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand - good heavens! - that's what I really call troublesome. - Ludwig van Beethoven

10. Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business - I'd say, number one is have a high pain threshold. - Elon Musk

11. The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. - George Bernard Shaw

12. I am personally a big believer that technology is the biggest driver of human development, and if you can use technology to benefit people, then that's the best business you can have. - Mukesh Ambani.

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