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Quotes of the Day for 26 February 2001 – Business
It's Monday, and for those who didn't spend the weekend at their computers, it's time to get back to Business.
The quotes:
Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
- Peter Drucker
Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
- Barry Forbes
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?
- Robert Townsend
I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that.
- George Pratt Shultz
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