“Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.”
— Edward de Bono
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“If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.”
— Warren Buffett
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“Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.”
— Nicholas Sparks
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“To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.”
— Baltasar Gracian
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“The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.”
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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“After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.”
— Calvin Coolidge
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“The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.”
— Andrew Jackson
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“The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.”
— Walter Lippmann
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“Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.”
— Evan Esar
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“Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.”
— Peter Singer
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“I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck.”
— Ron Perlman
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