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Abraham Lincoln If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him... Abraham Lincoln Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to tes... A. C. Benson One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background... Adlai E. Stevenson There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parte... Albert Einstein The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income... Al Boliska Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments ... Alexander Graham Bell When one door closes another door opens; but we so often l... Alexis de Tocqueville We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualit... Alfred A. Montapert All lasting business is built on friendship.... Alvin Toffler To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in ... Ambrose Bierce The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor... Ambrose Bierce Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit with... Andre Malraux To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.... Andre Maurois The most important quality in a leader is that of being ac... Andre Maurois Business is a combination of war and sport.... Andrew Carnegie And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for... Andrew Carnegie Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your e... Andy Warhol Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them... Coco Chanel There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time... Colin Powell Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that... Colin Powell There are no secrets to success. It is the result of prepa... Colin Powell Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.... Confucius The superior man understands what is right; the inferior m... Dale Carnegie Most of the important things in the world have been accomp... Harold S. Geneen In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash... Harry Emerson Fosdick Don't simply retire from something; have something to reti... Aristotle Onassis The secret of business is to know something that nobody el... Arnold H. Glasow One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize... Arnold H. Glasow One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to reco... Arthur C. Clarke The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax r... B. C. Forbes Real riches are the riches possessed inside.... B. C. Forbes If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out o... Benjamin Franklin He that is of the opinion money will do everything may wel... Benjamin Franklin In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.... Benjamin Jowett The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the cre... Blaine Lee The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reac... Blaine Lee The leader who exercises power with honor will work from t... Blaine Lee What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstance... Cecil Rhodes So little done, so much to do.... Charles A. Jaffe For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is "take-home pay... Charles A. Jaffe It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spendi... Charles A. Jaffe Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuri... Charles A. Jaffe Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, a... Charles Kettering High achievement always takes place in the framework of hi... Dale Dauten It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to... Dale Dauten A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the ro... Don Marquis Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: alway... Edgar R. Fiedler Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers ... Edgar R. Fiedler He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground... Edgar R. Fiedler The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like ... Edgar R. Fiedler If you have to forecast, forecast often.... Edward Appleton I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.... Edward Gibbon Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.... Evan Esar Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unrelia... Evan Esar Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures d... Frank Lloyd Wright Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as... Gary Ryan Blair Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge... Gary Ryan Blair Do more than is required. What is the distance between som... George Bernard Shaw If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never r... Henry David Thoreau I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more oppose... Henry Ford Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take... Henry Ford A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business... Henry Ford The man who will use his skill and constructive imaginatio... Henry R. Luce Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual d... Henry Ward Beecher Every young man would do well to remember that all success... Herbert Hoover About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves t... Herbert Hoover Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action ... Howard Aiken Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your idea... H. S. M. Burns Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to gr... Igor Sikorsky The work of the individual still remains the spark that mo... Isaac Asimov Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on... Jack Anderson The incestuous relationship between government and big bus... James H. Boren When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in ... Jane Fonda If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconven... Jeff Bezos There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try t... Jennifer Aniston I was told to avoid the business all together because of t... Jim Cramer Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still a... John Cleese I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being blan... John Greenleaf Whittier As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage th... Josh Billings The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets th... J. Paul Getty The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral righ... J. Paul Getty I buy when other people are selling.... J. Paul Getty If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe t... J. Paul Getty If you can count your money, you don't have a billion doll... Kahlil Gibran If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is... Laurence J. Peter An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the t... Lee Iacocca If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'... Les Brown Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among th... Lord Acton Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.... Lord Acton I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never... Lucius Annaeus Seneca If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind... Mark Twain It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a goo... Mark Twain Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it... Mason Cooley Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the Amer... Max de Pree The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.... Meg Whitman Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the ... Michael Korda The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing... Mitchell Kapor Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.... Napoleon Hill The majority of men meet with failure because of their lac... Napoleon Hill Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refus... Niccolo Machiavelli No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed... Norman Cousins Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every ... Paul A. Volcker What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fel... Paul Tournier Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they ca... Peter Drucker There is an enormous number of managers who have retired o... Peter Drucker Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's mone... Peter Drucker Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed not... Peter Drucker Most of what we call management consists of making it diff... Ralph Nader I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'... Richard Nelson Bolles Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Frid... Robert Browning Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a c... Robert Frost By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually... Robert H. Schuller Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you h... Robert H. Schuller If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing wh... Robert Orben Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the... Robin Williams Carpe per diem - seize the check.... Rupert Murdoch The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.... Scott Adams Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of gu... Scott Adams Remind people that profit is the difference between revenu... Scott McNealy Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by gi... Sinclair Lewis People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'... Stanislaw Lem Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.... Stanislaw Lem Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.... Stephen Covey Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effect... Stephen Covey A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many man... Steve Ballmer What we've gone through in the last several years has caus... Steve Ballmer We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a ... Steve Jobs I want to put a ding in the universe.... Steve Jobs Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best... Steve Ross You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to el... Tacitus Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.... Ted Turner My son is now an "entrepreneur." That's what you're called... Ted Turner Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eight... Theodore Isaac Rubin Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the ... Theodore White If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're f... Thomas A. Edison Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to d... Thomas A. Edison Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish... Thomas Carlyle Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other... Thomas Carlyle The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of wa... Tiger Woods I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for... Tim Berners-Lee Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer kn... Tim Berners-Lee Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easil... Tom Brokaw It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a dif... Tom Brokaw You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. Yo... Tom Peters Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of... Thomas J. Watson Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead oth... Thomas J. Watson If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. Wh... Thomas J. Watson Whenever an individual or a business decides that success ... Walter Lippmann The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in... Walter Lippmann The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situa... Walter Scott Success or failure in business is caused more by the menta... Warren Buffett Our favourite holding period is forever.... W. Clement Stone Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be... W. Edwards Deming Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers ... William A. Ward Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't alwa... William Feather A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't kee... William Penn Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it mak... William Wordsworth In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared... Will Rogers An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody el... Will Rogers It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that co... Will Rogers If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectabl... Will Rogers Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stoc... Winston Churchill I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In...

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