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Business Person Inspirational Quotes (966)

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What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you're unreliable it doesn't matter what your virtues are. You're going to crater immediately. Doing what you have faithfully engaged to do should be an automatic part of your conduct. You want to avoid sloth and unreliability.
Charlie Munger
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Competition makes you better, always, always makes you better, even if the competitor wins.
Carlos Slim
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Well, there's nothing I've done I'm not proud of. Making money was an interest, but it's never been my god.
Alan Sugar
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I don't invest in what I don't understand. And I don't want to understand Facebook.
Charlie Munger
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Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.
Eli Broad
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I challenge anybody to show me an example of bias in Fox News Channel.
Rupert Murdoch
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In engineering, people have a big margin of safety. But in the financial world, people don't give a damn about safety. They let it balloon and balloon and balloon. It's aided by false accounting.
Charlie Munger
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I'm not entitled to have an opinion unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who are in opposition. I think that I am qualified to speak only when I've reached that state.
Charlie Munger
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If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you'll receive good.
Russell Simmons
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More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but thats more like a spice.
Tadashi Yanai
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Over many decades, our usual practice is that if something we like goes down, we buy more and more. Sometimes something happens, you realize you’re wrong, and you get out. But if you develop correct confidence in your judgment, buy more and take advantage of stock prices.
Charlie Munger
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A director who gets $150,000 per year from a company and needs the money is not independent.
Charlie Munger
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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
John D. Rockefeller
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Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
John D. Rockefeller
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Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
Tadashi Yanai
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It's a finite and very competitive world. All large aggregations of capital eventually find it hell on earth to grow and thus find a lower rate of return.
Charlie Munger
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All intelligent investing is value investing - acquiring more that you are paying for. You must value the business in order to value the stock.
Charlie Munger
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We're very simple people at Apple. We focus on making the world's best products and enriching people's lives.
Tim Cook
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I think the main figure that matters to all of us, including people in the media, is: How does GDP per capita grow? And those figures have been very good. There is a huge flux both up and down, so it isn't like we're all static in status. What's important is that pie grows.
Charlie Munger
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A banker who is allowed to borrow money at X and loan it out at X plus Y will just go crazy and do too much of it if the civilization doesn't have rules that prevent it.
Charlie Munger
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I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.
Phil Knight
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The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn't even thought of - and then meet it.
Eli Broad
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Strategic plans cause more dumb decisions than anything else in America.
Charlie Munger
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Failure to handle psychological denial is a common way for people to go broke: you have made an enormous commitment to something. You have poured effort and money in. And the more you put in, the more that the whole consistency principle makes you think, Now it has to work. If I put in just a little more, then it will work.
Charlie Munger
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