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Business and economy resources: Sample quotations
Dean Acheson
US politician
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
[Quoted in Wall Street Journal, 1977]
Jeff Bezos
US computer entrepreneur and founder of Amazon.com
Obsess about customers, not the competitors.
[AskMen, 1 September 2001]
Warren Buffett
US entrepreneur, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, and investment guru
At too many companies, the boss shoots the arrow of managerial performance, and then hastily paints the bullseye around the spot where it lands.
[Shareholder, 1989]
Charles Doshzer
Former CEO of Enichem International
Restructuring is rather like planting asparagus. You know you should have started three years ago.
[International Management, 1987]
James Goldsmith
Anglo-French industrialist, publisher, and politician
If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.
[Quoted in The Risk Takers by Jeffrey Robinson]
Ingvar Kamprad
Swedish entrepreneur and founder of IKEA
Expensive solutions to all kinds of problems are often signs of mediocrity.
[Swedish Marketers Going Global by Seth Chandler (1993)]
Viscount Leverhulme
English industrialist
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, and the trouble is I don't know which half.
[Quoted in D Ogilvy Confessions of an Advertising Man]
Rupert Murdoch
Australian-born US media magnate
A monopoly is a terrible thing until you've got one.
[The Guardian, 1995]
Anita Roddick
British entrepreneur, founder of the Body Shop
Advertising beauty is easy. All you have to do is revile your customers by creating a disease called growing older and then provide a remedy that doesn't work.
[Independent, 12 April 1997]
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