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" Based on my pool of coached clients, 90% of the challenges for business owners exist in a lack of personal development. "

Darren L Johnson

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" I don't think it ever does any harm in any business to feel that there is someone there who cares about it. If you look at any business, fashion being the most obvious, the aura, or the reality of the designer, is part of what creates it. It's true in luxury goods stores and in good food stores. It leaves a palpable sense that someone cares. "

" Relationships are personal, even in business, so sharing some of yourself and taking an interest in others helps to build trust and break down walls. "

" It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts. "

" Within that dream of working with your partner, you want to be able to separate and have a home life. You have to be able to be husband and wife at the same time as business partners. "

" 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

" Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. "

" I keep lot of my opinions to myself. My grandfather, who was a gravedigger, told me one day, 'Son, the next time you go by the cemetery, remember that a third of the people are in there because they got into other people's business.' "

" Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment with sustainable results, and produces other positive effects such as employee motivation and improved organizational culture. "

" I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that. "

" One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. "

" Peace in the world is everybody's business, no matter where you live or what you do. "

" I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. "

" For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family. "

" I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one. "

" Urban living is an intersection of business and personal life. "

" If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you. "

" I have used the laws of this country just like the greatest people that you read about every day in business have used the laws of this country, the chapter laws, to do a great job for my company, for myself, for my employees, for my family, et cetera. "

" We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. "

Alexis de Tocqueville

" Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can't get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy. "

" Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. "

" If Israel did not exist, the United Nations would go out of business. "

" The first article carrying Vonnegut's byline, 'This Business of Whistle Purchasing,' a lighthearted criticism of a school fund-raiser, was submitted at the urging of his sophomore English teacher. "

Charles J. Shields

" Only nine States have been represented since my arrival 'till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend. "

William Whipple

" A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a customer is not a share in a business, but a view of the Elysian Fields. A financier is a creative artist. Our function is to stimulate the imagination. We are poets! "

" I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it. "

" Growing up on a family farm, I know firsthand the challenges of running a small business... challenges that only seem to be growing for today's entrepreneurs. "

" I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't. "

" Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work. "

" I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. "

Thomas Jefferson

" I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy. "