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In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
Harold S. Geneen

Experience, Two, Everyone

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
Jack Welch

Learning, Learn, Action

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Colin Powell

Optimism, Force, Perpetual

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
Peter Drucker

Change, Exploits, Responds

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
W. Clement Stone

Trying, Try, Become

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
Tim Berners-Lee

Dreams, Time, True

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
David Ogilvy

Try, Idiots, Using

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
John Greenleaf Whittier

Truth, Small, Greater

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Thomas Carlyle

Work, Good, Done

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Herbert Hoover

Time, Somebody, Meet

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
Herbert Hoover

Depression, Cannot, Themselves

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
Gary Ryan Blair

Someone, Between, Lives

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
W. Edwards Deming

Friends, Service, Bring

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce

Known, Looks, Gambling

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
Isaac Asimov

Takes, Degree, Initiative

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.
Andy Warhol

Best, Pick, Employees

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
Peter Drucker

Time, Nothing, Else

Business is a combination of war and sport.
Andre Maurois

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
Fred Allen

Confusion, Percent, Agency

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
William Wordsworth

Honest, Modern, Feared

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.
Lee Iacocca

Good, Start, Rules

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.
Robert Kiyosaki

Bad, Real, Times

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
Max de Pree

Reality, Leader, Between

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
J. Paul Getty

Problem, Million, Bank

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
Tom Peters

Design, Almost, Quality

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