Muhtar Quotes

#1. If there's a choice between tap water and bottled water, the consumer can make that choice. In a very large geography in the world, that choice does not exist.

Muhtar Kent

#2. A brand is a promise. A good brand is a promise kept.

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#3. Consumers no longer want only a great product - they want to buy products from companies that align with their own character and values.

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#4. I always encourage our people and young business people that I meet to have a respect for cash, keeping some in their pockets and purses at all times. To me, that's essential.

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#5. I've always believed in the importance of education and continuing to learn throughout every stage of life.

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#6. During difficult economic times, consumers gravitate toward the brands they know, the brands they love and trust.

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#7. Growing up, I had a sense of the importance of commerce and trade to everyday life. Our family lived in several countries, and I was fascinated by the free exchange of goods and services between individuals and companies - the way both parties could benefit.

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#8. Ask any rich man of common prudence to which of the two sorts of people he has lent the greater part of his stock, to those who, he thinks, will employ it profitably, or to those who will spend it idly, and he will laugh at you for proposing the question.

Adam Smith

#9. We need to focus on the speed with which local governments can work with businesses.

Muhtar Kent

#10. The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry, which is the most concentrated form of style ... I don't care how clever the other professor is, one can't raise a discussion of modern prose to anything above tea-table level.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#11. It's just a reminder that war favors the rich. The ones who can leave, do. The ones who can't, suffer." Kiva was silent for a moment. Then, "Fuck you for having a conscience, Tomi.

John Scalzi

#12. The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.

Max Weber

#13. Obesity is a societal issue. We have to come together with government, business, civil society, and NGOs to create solutions for this.

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#14. The vicar, a gentle, middle-aged man, was always the last to hear anything.

Agatha Christie

#15. There is no tomorrow without today.

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#16. I want to do the unspeakable to you baby
then speak about it

Kent Evans

#17. Without investment there will not be growth, and without growth there will not be employment.

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#18. Businesses need to proactively create models that make a difference in society and let everyone else use them, talk about them, emulate them - and build on them.

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#19. When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt. When government does it, it sends you the bill. And when government does it for 40 years, the bill comes in two ways: higher taxes and inflation. Make no mistake about it, inflation is a tax and not by accident.

Ronald Reagan

#20. Sometimes to be at home is like a nightmare by Stephen King.

Deyth Banger

#21. The model of Coca-Cola is local, whether it's investing, partnering, sourcing, producing, or selling. We market and distribute locally; we pay taxes locally. And it works.

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#22. While my father was a diplomat rather than a business person, I count him as a critically important formative role model. He was comfortable living and working all around the world, wherever he was assigned.

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#23. Coca-Cola is the only business in the world where no matter which country or town or village you are in, if someone asks what do you do, and you say you work for Coca-Cola, you never have to answer the question, 'What is that?'

Muhtar Kent

#24. I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

Rebecca West

#25. I love Southeast Asia. As a child, I lived in that part of the world. My first time in Burma was in 1958 with my parents.

Muhtar Kent