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“If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.”

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Author:Elbert Hubbard

“Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.”

Knows Humans Wells Human Beings Business Businessman Motivational Business

Author:George Soros

“The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.”

Knows Men Inspirational Years Wells Mean Ends Chance Results Business Attention He Man Rewards Patient Affair Attainment

Book:The Empire of Business

Source: The Empire of Business

“Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.”

Giving Wells Government Might Business Fancy Drains Giving Money

Author:A. P. Herbert

“Advertising tends to be most effective in jogging finally into action those people who are well-enough disposed towards a product, but have not yet got around to buying it.”

People Wells Enough Action Business Products Advertising Buying Jogging

Author:Stephen King

“It has taken more than a hundred scientists two years to find out how to make the product in question; I have been given thirty days to create its personality and plan its launching. If I do my job well, I shall contribute as much as the hundred scientists to the success of this product.”

Ifs Years Wells Has Beens Two Jobs Given Business Taken Plans Products Personality Hundred Scientist Advertising Thirty Two Years Launching

Book:Confessions of an advertising man

Source: Confessions of an advertising man

“Jane Fonda, who divided her life into three acts, decided after her sixtieth birthday that she was now facing the final act, and came to the following conclusion: "I thought to myself, well if that's the case and if what I'm scared of isn't death, but getting to the end with regrets, then I've got to figure out what would be the things that I would regret when I got to the last act if I hadn't done them or achieved them by then. And they were: having an intimate relationship and having made a difference."”

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

“...perhaps the most distinguishing trait of visionary leaders is that they believe in a goal that benefits not only themselves, but others as well. It is such vision that attracts the psychic energy of other people, and makes them willing to work beyond the call of duty for the organization.”

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Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Some individuals have developed such strong internal standards that they no longer need the opinion of others to judge whether they have performed a task well or not. The ability to give objective feedback to oneself is in fact the mark of the expert.”

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

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

“To invest successfully, you need not understand beta, efficient markets, modern portfolio theory, option pricing or emerging markets. You may, in fact, be better off knowing nothing of these. That, of course, is not the prevailing view at most business schools, whose finance curriculum tends to be dominated by such subjects. In our view, though, investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business, and How to Think About Market Prices.”

Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

“Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac's talents didn't extend to investing: He lost a bundle in the South Sea Bubble, explaining later, 'I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.' If he had not been traumatized by this loss, Sir Isaac might well have gone on to discover the Fourth Law of Motion: For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases.”

“Would your reply possibly be this? Well, it all depends on what my tax rate will be on the gain you're saying we're going to make. If the taxes are too high, I would rather leave the money in my savings account, earning a quarter of 1 percent. Only in Grover Norquist's imagination does such a response exist.”

Ifs Wells Doe Imagination Business Depends Taxes Percent Gains Accounts Investment Response Rate Saving Quarters Earning Savings Grover Savings Accounts

Author:Warren Buffett