Best business & firsts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“But we can't alibi all our ills by just knocking the old banker. First he loaned the money, then the people all at once wanted it back, and he didn't have it. Now he's got it again, and is afraid to loan it, so the poor devil don't know what to do.”

People Knows Firsts Wanted Poor Business Devil Loan Bankers Knocking

Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”

Source: The road ahead

“There are two kinds of second class men in business. There is the man who puts money first and service second. There is the man who puts service first and money second, who never has any money. The first class man in business is the man who is made up out of rolling the other two kinds into one man and working them together.”

Men Firsts Kind Made Two Together Business Class He Man One Man Rolling First Class

Book:The House of Twenty Seven Gardens

Source: The House of Twenty Seven Gardens

“A successful business maximizes the present value of future earnings. The first requirement, therefore, of business success is sustainable profits. One-time winnings, in business as in casinos, are disappointing. We expect more from our investments than that.”

Firsts Values Winning Business Successful Investment Profit One Time Business Success Earning Requirements Disappointing Successful Business Casinos

Book:Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with the Public Good

Source: Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with the Public Good

“All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]”

Firsts Business Enterprise Impetus Inconsiderate Impetuous

Author:Tacitus

“if you wish to train yourself for higher executive positions, the first thing for you to decide is what you are training for. Ability to dominate or manipulate others? That ought to be easy enough, since most of the magazines advertise sure ways of developing something they call 'personality.' But I am convinced that the first essential of business success is the capacity for organized thinking.”

Source: Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett

“American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.”

People Firsts Humans Doe Helping Business Race Prove Sells Charity Human Race American Business

Book:The Folks at Home

Source: The Folks at Home

“One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic.”

Firsts Life Is Business Imperialism Business Life

Author:Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

“What you do is ultimately pointless. You could be replaced any day of the week with the first moron who walks in the door. So work as little as possible, and spend a little time (not too much, though) 'selling yourself' and 'networking' so that you will have backup and will be untouchable (and untouched) the next time the company is restructured.”

Firsts Littles Next Work Walks Business Company Too Much Doors Week Selling Replaced Next Time Networking Pointless Little Time Moron Untouchables Days Of The Week Backup Selling Yourself

Author:Corinne Maier

“Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.”

Thinking Firsts Littles Two Book Ideas Form President Business Harder Vices Drawing Planning Sophisticated Printing Vice President Planners Dynamite

Author:John Welch

“It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.”

Should Firsts Hands Found Business Fit Public Trust

Book:An Exposition of the New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents ...

Source: An Exposition of the New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents ...

“Put First Things First! These four words cover an entire philosophy which can be applied with profit by every business leader, by every executive and by every employee.”

Firsts Philosophy Leadership Business Leader Four Profit Employee Executives Business Leaders First Things First Put First Things First

Author:Thomas Watson, Jr.

“In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.”

Firsts Children Business Ignorance Thirds Boldness Baseness

Author:Francis Bacon

“The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.”

Way Inspirational Firsts Business Economics Management Sells Best Way Selling Out Salespeople Desire To Win Unsolicited Advice Selling Yourself

Book:Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01

Source: Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01

“Perhaps nothing in all my business has helped me more than faith in my fellow man. From the very first I felt confident that I could trust the great, friendly public. So I told it quite simply what I thought, what I felt, what I was trying to do. And the response was quick, sure, and immediate.”

Men Trying Firsts Success Felt Business Trust Fellows Response Friendly Fellow Man Great Friend

Author:Alice Foote MacDougall

“Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.”

Firsts Mean Made Money Business Creativity Worry Pieces Tests Innovation Ships Revolutionary Crap Bad Ass Macs

Author:Guy Kawasaki

“If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.”

Ifs Firsts Success Motivation Work Inspiring Business Hard Work Office Satisfaction Educational Customers Business Success Doing You Mcdonalds Well Done Big Business Motivational Business Motivational Success Motivational Sales Inspirational Success Customer Satisfaction Motivational Leadership Business Owners Motivational Work Inspirational Customer Service Inspiring Customer Service Salespeople Will To Succeed Inspirational Service Best Service Inspirational Sales Sales Team Work Day Business Inspiration Great Sales Sales Team Motivational Great Customer Service Sales People Hard Work Success Sales Leadership Stay Motivated Hard Work Comes Success Greatest Sales Marketing And Sales Work Love Inspirational Money Making Hard Work And Success Job Well Done Succeeding In Business Employee Inspirational Motivate Employees Inspiring Sales Sales Success Job Satisfaction Satisfaction In Work Customer Success Years Of Service Business First Group Motivational

Author:Ray Kroc

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”

“If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.”

“A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.”

Firsts Business Strange Sight Obvious Analysis Commodity Metaphysical Corny Theological Strange Things Subtlety Niceties Trivial Things

Book:Marx Selections

Source: Marx Selections

“The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.”

“Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.”

Firsts Business Vision Planning Worthless Strategic Strategic Planning Future Planning Strategic Vision

Author:John Naisbitt

“People first, then money, then things.”

People Life Firsts Success Money Business Priorities Assets

Author:Suze Orman

“I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.”

Thinking Firsts Bigs Business Successful Fans Innovation Being Successful Ownership Business Success Small Business Backbone Small Business Owners

Author:Bill Rancic

“First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.”

People Firsts Business Thirds Rate Second Rate

Author:Leo Rosten

“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.”

“I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.”

Firsts Facts Remember Lost Business Friends Actresses Jealous Annoying Remember When Annoyed Lots Of Friends

Author:Amber Tamblyn

“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

“Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.”

Feels Firsts Different Business Comfort Mets Discovery Depth Brands Excitement Mature Replaced Spouse

Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.”

Ifs Thinking Inspirational Firsts Simple Business Morning Progress Easier Inspiring Business Business Inspiration

Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it inappropriate for even an exceptionally profitable company to fund an operation once it appears to have unending losses in prospect. Adam Smith would disagree with my first proposition and Karl Marx would disagree with my second; the middle ground is the only position that leaves me comfortable.”

“You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.”

Ifs Love Firsts Dream Hands Would Be Asks Poor Business Fool Conversation Experience Personal Experiences Been In Love Austen Bronte Spenser First Hand Experience

Author:C. S. Lewis

“The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.”

Firsts Loses Loss Forget Business Investing Buffets

Author:Warren Buffett

“People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.”

“My first six years in the business were hopeless. There are a lot of times when you sit and you say "Why am I doing this? I'll never make it. It's just not going to happen. I should go out and get a real job, and try to survive."”

Inspirational Should Trying Years Firsts Real Happens Jobs Success Business Six Commitment Hopeless Real Jobs

Author:George Lucas

“If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.”

“Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself”

“The basic prescription for preventing deflation is therefore straightforward, at least in principle: Use monetary and fiscal policy as needed to support aggregate spending, in a manner as nearly consistent as possible with full utilization of economic resources and low and stable inflation. In other words, the best way to get out of trouble is not to get into it in the first place.”

“All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

Way Firsts Important Imagination Business Meaningful Lasting Lasting Change

Author:Albert Einstein

“We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.”

People Firsts Humans Numbers Business Technology Rich Internet First Time Connections Social Media Digital Human History Digital Marketing Social Media Marketing Digital Media

Author:Pierre Omidyar

“In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.”

“Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential.”

Knows Firsts Business Steps First Steps

Author:Alan Rufus

“In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.”

“Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.”

“Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.”

Ifs Firsts Work Business Morning Food Breakfast Good Morning Waking Up In The Morning Beautiful Morning Morning Inspirational Funny Good Morning Good Morning Inspirational Breakfast Being Important Waking Up Every Morning Greetings In The Morning Morning Motivational Breakfast Food

Author:Josh Billings

“In life and business, there are two cardinal sins. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all.”

Firsts Two Sin Business Mistake Self Esteem Cardinals

Author:Carl Icahn

“What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Self Philosophy Business Practice Learning Impossible Conceit Conceited

Author:Epictetus

“A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity...one must first embark on the formidable journey of self-discovery in order to create a vision with authentic soul.”

“...in the words of Max DePree: "Management has a lot to do with answers. But leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is: 'Who do we intend to be?' Not 'What are we going to do?' but 'Who do we intend to be?'"”

Firsts Leadership Sin Answers Business Leader Function Management Max

Book:Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

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