The Big Book of Business Quotations: Over 1,400 of the Smartest Things Ever Said about Making Money

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Simon and Schuster, Nov 15, 2016 - Business & Economics - 592 pages
A quotable reference for anyone interested in learning the ins and outs of business or starting their own.

More than one million people in the United States take the necessary steps to enroll in master’s of business programs every single year. These students learn the fundamentals required to eventually start their own businesses, carry on family businesses, or become CEOs of other people’s businesses.

The Big Book of Business Quotations, compiled and edited by journalist Johnnie Roberts, features advice, ideas, strategies, and secrets that helped make some of the most successful businesspeople in the world rich, famous, or both. These quotes will inspire and motivate any current or aspiring businessperson to achieve success.

“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.” —Norman Schwarzkopf

“Business opportunities are like buses; there’s always another one coming.” —Richard Branson

“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” —Warren Buffett

“Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” —Coco Chanel
 

Contents

Advertising
Business
Humor
Customers
Passion
Wisdom
Profit Money and Greed
Determination and Focus
Productivity
Success
Teamwork and Leadership
Vision and Goals
Decision Making
Investing
Character
Values Ethics and Charity

Failure Fear and Adversity
Creativity Innovation and Risk
Opportunity Luck and Change
List of Speakers Quoted
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About the author (2016)

Johnnie L. Roberts—veteran national journalist, ghost-writer/editor, and communications expert—has been a senior writer for The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and The Wrap.com. Time Warner, Michael Jackson and the corporate-data giant Dun and Bradstreet were subjects of his prize-winning investigative stories. He is ghostwriter/editor/book doctor of seven books focused on, among other matters, the fashion industry, the life of a Zimbabwean Sephardi, and the world view of a German-Jewish immigrant. Roberts resides in South Orange, New Jersey.