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A. C. BensonOne's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
Abraham LincolnIf there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Adam SmithIt is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Albert EinsteinThe hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Alexis de TocquevilleWe succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Alfred A. MontapertAll lasting business is built on friendship.
Ambrose BierceCorporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Andre MalrauxTo command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
Andre MauroisBusiness is a combination of war and sport.
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
Andrew CarnegieAnd while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Andy WarholEmployees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.
Aristotle OnassisThe secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
Arnold H. GlasowOne of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
B. C. ForbesReal riches are the riches possessed inside.
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
Benjamin FranklinIn this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin JowettThe way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
Blaine LeeThe great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.
Bobby DarinA group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.
C. ClarkeThe best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom
Cecil RhodesSo little done, so much to do.
Charles KetteringHigh achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Coco ChanelThere is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
Colin Powell Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
ConfuciusThe superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Dale CarnegieMost of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
David OgilvyOur business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife.
Don MarquisPunctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Edgar R. FiedlerAsk five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.
If you have to forecast, forecast often.
The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
Edward AppletonI rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
Edward GibbonOur work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Evan EsarDefinition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
Fred AllenAn advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
Garet GarrettBusiness is in itself a power.
Gary Ryan BlairDo more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
George Bernard ShawIf all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
Harold S. GeneenIn the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
Harry Emerson FosdickDon't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
Henry David ThoreauI think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry FordBusiness is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
Henry FordThe man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Henry R. LuceBusiness, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Henry Ward BeecherEvery young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Herbert HooverAbout the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Herbert HooverEconomic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
Howard AikenDon't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Igor SikorskyThe work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.
Isaac Asimov It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
J. Paul GettyIf you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
I buy when other people are selling.
Jack AndersonThe incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
Jack WelchWillingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
Jane FondaIf the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
Jeff BezosThere are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
Jennifer AnistonI was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.
Jerry GreenfieldBusiness can be a source of progressive change.
John CleeseI find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
John Greenleaf WhittierAs a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
John Kenneth GalbraithMeetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Khalil GibranIf you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Laurence J. PeterAn economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Lord ActonI'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
Mark TwainIt usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Max de PreeThe first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
Meg WhitmanLook at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.
Michael KordaThe fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
Mitt RomneyThe invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.
Napoleon HillEffort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Niccolo MachiavelliNo enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Paul A. VolckerWhat's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.
Paul TournierSooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Peter DruckerBusiness, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
Robert BrowningLike dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Robert H. SchullerFailure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Robert OrbenEvery day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
Sam WaltonThere is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
Scott AdamsInformed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
Scott McNealyOnly a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.
Stanislaw LemCannibals prefer those who have no spines.
Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
Stephen CoveyA cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
Steve JobsI want to put a ding in the universe.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.
TacitusReason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Ted TurnerMy son is now an entrepreneur. That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
Theodore Isaac RubinHappiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
Thomas A. EdisonHell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas CarlyleBlessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Thomas J. WatsonIf you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
Tiger WoodsI get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.
Tom AllenFamily farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.
Tom BrokawIt's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
Tom PetersAlmost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
W. Clement StoneTry, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
W. Edwards DemingProfit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
Walt DisneyDisneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
Walter LippmannThe genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter ScottSuccess or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Warren BuffettOur favorite holding period is forever.
Will RogersAn economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.
William Arthur WardWise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
William FeatherA budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
William WordsworthIn modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
Winston Churchill I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.