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Business Quotes by Theodore Levitt
- Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things.
- The true purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer, not to make you money.
- The purpose of a business is to get and keep a customer. Without customers, no amount of engineering wizardry, clever financing, or operations expertise can…
- Selling concerns itself with the tricks and techniques of getting people to exchange their cash for your product. It is not concerned with the values…
- A powerful new idea can kick around unused in a company for years, not because its merits are not recognized, but because nobody has assumed…
- The trouble with much of the advice business is getting today about the need to be more vigorously creative is, essentially, that its advocates have…
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