| Quote 17 | An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. |
| Quote 31 | Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. |
| Quote 51 | And 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 f... |
| Quote 83 | Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in ... |
| Quote 86 | An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. |
| Quote 87 | As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth. |
| Quote 108 | All lasting business is built on friendship.
- Alfred A. Montapert |
| Quote 162 | A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it. |
| Quote 206 | Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures. |
| Quote 228 | About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends. |
| Quote 229 | Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard. |
| Quote 231 | Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to... |
| Quote 251 | A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until ... |
| Quote 309 | An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's. |
| Quote 347 | Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
- Stanislaw Lem |
| Quote 451 | Business is a combination of war and sport.
- Andre Maurois |
| Quote 602 | There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. |
| Quote 632 | Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money. |
| Quote 731 | The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. |
| Quote 2105 | We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. |
| Quote 2167 | Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
- Colin Powell |
| Quote 2306 | Most 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. |
| Quote 2611 | Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. |
| Quote 3869 | Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. |
| Quote 3905 | If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. |
| Quote 4084 | Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader. |
| Quote 5153 | If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. |
| Quote 5190 | Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness. |
| Quote 7132 | If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. |
| Quote 7605 | If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. |
| Quote 7673 | The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark. |
| Quote 7674 | Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. |
| Quote 7684 | Look 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 go... |
| Quote 7696 | Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products. |
| Quote 7704 | The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. |
| Quote 8002 | The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government. |
| Quote 8047 | Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. |
| Quote 8076 | To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. |
| Quote 8117 | The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in... |
| Quote 8129 | Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. |
| Quote 8183 | It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. |
| Quote 8212 | Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. |
| Quote 8238 | The 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 ... |
| Quote 8259 | Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. |
| Quote 8271 | The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers. |
| Quote 8307 | I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations. |
| Quote 8384 | Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. |
| Quote 8390 | Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money. |
| Quote 8424 | There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somew... |
| Quote 8466 | Like 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... |
| Quote 8512 | The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork. |
| Quote 8573 | If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable. |
| Quote 8781 | I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love. |
| Quote 8801 | What'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. |
| Quote 8847 | The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. |
| Quote 8876 | I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. |
| Quote 8934 | If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business. |
| Quote 8950 | We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference. |
| Quote 9016 | What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful. |
| Quote 9112 | Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and car... |
| Quote 9134 | Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. |
| Quote 9157 | If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. |
| Quote 9175 | I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. |
| Quote 9298 | Business is in itself a power.
- Andre Maurois |
| Quote 9322 | Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up eit... |
| Quote 9327 | In 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. |
| Quote 9346 | The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. |
| Quote 9361 | 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. |
| Quote 9481 | It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. |
| Quote 9484 | I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job... |
| Quote 9499 | If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them. |
| Quote 9611 | The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. |
| Quote 9630 | Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
- B. C. Forbes |
| Quote 9705 | Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut ... |
| Quote 9827 | The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. |
| Quote 9832 | Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. |
| Quote 9934 | Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible. |
| Quote 9939 | When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me? |
| Quote 10000 | Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them. |
| Quote 10107 | There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time! |
| Quote 10140 | So little done, so much to do.
- Cecil Rhodes |
| Quote 10230 | The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. |
| Quote 10235 | There 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. |
| Quote 10259 | A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his. |
| Quote 10281 | Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. |
| Quote 10290 | In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. |
| Quote 10303 | The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights. |
| Quote 10387 | If you have to forecast, forecast often.
- Edgar R. Fiedler |
| Quote 10439 | Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors fac... |
| Quote 10556 | Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. |
| Quote 10666 | Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet. |
| Quote 10740 | Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities. |
| Quote 10837 | Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth -it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million. |
| Quote 10843 | Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the ce... |
| Quote 10847 | Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. |
| Quote 10869 | I want to put a ding in the universe.
- Steve Jobs |
| Quote 10963 | Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. |
| Quote 11032 | Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network. |
| Quote 11051 | What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?' |
| Quote 11085 | Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets. |
| Quote 11210 | People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.' |
| Quote 11286 | The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself. |
| Quote 11333 | High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. |
| Quote 11373 | If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance. |
| Quote 11382 | My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job. |
| Quote 11406 | Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. |
| Quote 11415 | 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. |
| Quote 11421 | When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder. |
| Quote 11448 | Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. |
| Quote 11519 | Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon. |
| Quote 11568 | One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. |
| Quote 11579 | In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. |
| Quote 11657 | Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything. |
| Quote 11704 | The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. |
| Quote 11723 | Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. |
| Quote 11733 | The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. |
| Quote 11734 | I 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 j... |
| Quote 11816 | Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. |
| Quote 11931 | I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. |
| Quote 12025 | Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task tha... |
| Quote 12145 | One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. |
| Quote 12213 | No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. |
| Quote 12327 | Carpe per diem - seize the check.
- Robin Williams |
| Quote 12330 | Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart. |
| Quote 12345 | I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod. |
| Quote 12349 | Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. |
| Quote 12353 | Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. |
| Quote 12400 | It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain. |
| Quote 12404 | For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is 'take-home pay' because home is the only place they can afford to go with it. |
| Quote 12481 | Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. |
| Quote 12538 | Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. |
| Quote 12605 | Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country. |
| Quote 12631 | Every 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. |
| Quote 12775 | The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. |
| Quote 12795 | It 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 intere... |
| Quote 12885 | The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own. |
| Quote 12929 | If 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 wa... |
| Quote 13043 | Our favorite holding period is forever.
- Warren Buffett |
| Quote 13185 | 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. |
| Quote 13195 | Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they real... |
| Quote 13215 | I buy when other people are selling.
- J. Paul Getty |
| Quote 13332 | The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. |
| Quote 13597 | It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts. |
| Quote 13713 | To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textil... |
| Quote 13829 | The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. |
| Quote 13968 | 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 n... |