Archive for May, 2008
Saturday, May 31st, 2008
“The Golden Rule for every businessman is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’”
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Orison Swett Marden
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
“No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.”
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Calvin Coolidge
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
“The business of America is business.”
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Calvin Coolidge
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
“All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.”
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Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
“There’s no question. When you’re a public company, there’s a lot more disclosure than when you’re a sub of a public company. And so, you have to. There’s more disclosure, your competition knows more about you and that’s certainly a disadvantage.”
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Paul House, CEO of Tim Hortons
During an interview on BNN
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
“Bake the cake that people most want to eat.”
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Martha Stewart in The Martha Rules
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Sunday, May 25th, 2008
“My god! Good managers are so scarce I can’t afford the luxury of letting them go just because they’ve added a year to their age.”
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Warren Buffett
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