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"733 Business Quotes

Stitching together a business with nothing but a great idea, your unique talents and whatever few resources you have at hand is most certainly a miracle.

Great Miracle Hand Idea
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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

Almost Always Large Loose
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The real minimum wage is zero.

Minimum Real Wage Zero
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The secret is not for you to venture into business because you think people are making money. You need to do your research. You also need to have an understanding of finance.

Secret Venture Business Making money
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Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

Accounting Balanced Balanced Budget Budget
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Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Backing Between Business Dividing
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My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

Any Around Invest Money
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If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

Airline Billion Billion Dollars Dollars
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For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

Businesses Create Creating Difference
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.

Back Best Buying Cable
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I always make sure I hire people smarter than me.

Sure Smarter Always Hire
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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Activities Business Concerned Far
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The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
Business First Men Other
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The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Business English Great Principle
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To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

About Being Business Essentials
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If you want to be more productive, then start at the start: get there on time. Whether it is a meeting, a flight, an appointment or a date, it's important to ensure you are there when you say you will be there. This may feel like an old-fashioned tip to give, but it has served me well for five decades in business.

Appointment Business Date Decades
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All you have in business is your reputation - so it's very important that you keep your word.

Business Important Keep Reputation
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In business, if you realize you've made a bad decision, you change it.

Bad Business Change Decision
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Can you imagine what a different world we will live in when businesses do what's right for the communities and the environment in everything they do?

Businesses Communities Different Different World
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There's no point in starting a business unless you're going to make a dramatic difference to other people's lives. So if you've got an idea that's gonna make a big difference to other people's lives, then just get on and do it.

Big Big Difference Business Difference
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I've never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people's lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies.

Able Been Build Business
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A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren't proud of what you're doing, why should anybody else be?

All The Difference Anybody Anybody Else Belief
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From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That's how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

Age Allowing Businesses Creatively
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An exceptional company is the one that gets all the little details right. And the people out on the front line, they know when things are not going right, and they know when things need to be improved. And if you listen to them, you can soon improve all those niggly things which turns an average company into an exceptional company.

Average Company Details Exceptional
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Entrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next.

Always Businesses Entrepreneurs Focus
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Starting your own business isn't just a job - it's a way of life.

Business Job Just Life
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It's rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.

Another Enough Immediately Income
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By putting the employee first, the customer effectively comes first by default, and in the end, the shareholder comes first by default as well.

Customer Default Effectively Employee
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If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

Big Big Company Company Humor
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Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

Business Commitment Entrepreneurs Fear
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Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures - they're lying if they say they haven't. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind - the product wasn't distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

Businesses Businessman Coca-Cola Distinct
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You should not build your customer service system on the premise that your organisation will never question the whims of your clients.

Build Clients Customer Customer Service
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My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.

Birds Breeding Business Christmas
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A complaint is a chance to turn a customer into a lifelong friend. I say that seriously, not as some press release baloney.

Chance Complaint Customer Friend
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More businesses should be following Apple's stance in encouraging more investment in sustainability.

Apple Businesses Encouraging Following
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From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people's lives better.

Better Business Day Entrepreneur
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.

Few Managers Many Rather
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If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

Beach Company Ended Long Time
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Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

Believe Big Business Change
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Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.
Always Area Big Big Companies
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You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies.

Best Best Way Come Companies
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We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.

Best Customers Everyone Evil
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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Business Make Necessary Others
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Never ask for small loans.

Ask Loans Never Small
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No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
Business Credit Get Great
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I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.
Because Business Clear Head
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The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
Boss Speed Team Of
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In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.

Business End In The End Operations
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The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

Decisiveness Good Good Manager Makes
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Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

Around Business Every Get
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