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Business Quotes by Elbert Hubbard

16 Business quotes by Elbert Hubbard

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Hubbard’s sixteen reflections blend a philosophical bent with hands‑on advice, offering a thoughtful take on commerce, creativity, and the value of work. It’s a compact guide for readers who appreciate a deeper, almost poetic, view of enterprise.

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Big business makes its money out of buy - products

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Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is

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Lawyers are the jackals of commerce.

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The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.

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“Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.”

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If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

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Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of…

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No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.

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The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously.

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It is very easy to manage our neighbor's business, but our own sometimes bothers us

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As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos…

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Do not go out of your way to do good whenever it comes your way. Men who make a business of doing…

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All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.

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A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

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We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.

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Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that…

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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better

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Art is nothing; it's a way.

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Library: A place where the dead lie.

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“If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.”

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The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.

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So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

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If I supply you with a thought, you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought…

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1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to…

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The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference…

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Every knock is a boost.

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What boy well raised can compare with your street gamin who has the knowledge and the shrewdness of a grown-up broker.

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