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Business Quotes - XIII

Business Quotes - XIII

1. The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip. - Zig Ziglar

2. In business, you have to be strong. If you are weak, people are going to take advantage. - Ivana Trump

3. In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don't have that in the rocket business. There's no Foxconn in the rocket business. - Elon Musk

4. Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. - Robert Louis Stevenson

5. In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. - David Ogilvy

6. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. - Dale Carnegie

7. Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner. - Walt Disney

8. If a business does well, the stock eventually follows. - Warren Buffett

9. Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business. - Elon Musk

10. The - the early Rockefellers made their wealth from being in certain businesses and - and remained personally very wealthy. Tatas were different in the sense the future generations were not so wealthy. They - they were involved in the business, but most of the family wealth is put into trust, and the family did not, in fact, enjoy enormous wealth. - Ratan Tata

11. Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. - Abraham Lincoln

12. Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost. - Steve Jobs.

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