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A business (also called firm or an enterprise) is a legally recognized organizational entity designed to provide good and/or services to consumer or corporate entities such as governments, charities or other businesses. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, most being privately owned and formed to earn profit to increase the wealth of owners. The owners and operators of a business have as one of their main objectives the receipt or generation of a financial return in exchange for... full article at wikipedia

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.	Harold Geneen
Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!	Christian Nevell Bovee
It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.	Henry Ford
Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.	Bernard Baruch
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.	Robert Louis Stevenson
Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.		Unknown
It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.	Oscar Wilde
I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.	Harold Geneen
Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.		Unknown
If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.	Benjamin Franklin
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Created by Metaweb Oct 22, 2006

Last edited by dinesxm Aug 13, 2008

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