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A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from bu... - William Feather
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. - Henry Ford
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you c... - Stephen R. Covey
A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In othe... - Dale Dauten
About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends. - Herbert Hoover
Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark ter... - Al Boliska
All lasting business is built on friendship. - Alfred A. Montapert
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, man... - Tom Peters
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he pre... - Laurence J. Peter
An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's. - Will Rogers
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individ... - Andrew Carnegie
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the prop... - Tim Berners-Lee
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth... - John Greenleaf Whittier
Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one... - Edgar R. Fiedler
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness... - Thomas Carlyle
Business is a combination of war and sport. - Andre Maurois
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with ... - Henry R. Luce
Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money. - Peter F. Drucker
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be b... - Robert Frost
Cannibals prefer those who have no spines. - Stanislaw Lem
Carpe per diem - seize the check. - Robin Williams
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individu... - Ambrose Bierce
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, bu... - Evan Esar
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts fr... - Evan Esar
Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who ach... - Gary Ryan Blair
Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness. - Stanislaw Lem
Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold i... - Will Rogers
Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your pos... - Colin Powell
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any go... - Howard Aiken
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive... - Herbert Hoover
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective manageme... - Stephen R. Covey
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. - Napoleon Hill
Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they... - Andy Warhol
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest peo... - Robert Orben
Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth -it's like... - Ted Turner
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business... - Henry Ward Beecher
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succe... - Robert H. Schuller
For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is "take-home pay" because ho... - Charles A. Jaffe
Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still am capable of... - James Cramer
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in ... - Norman Cousins
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of... - Theodore Isaac Rubin
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspect... - Benjamin Franklin
He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass. - Edgar R. Fiedler
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. - Thomas A. Edison
Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thoug... - Andrew Carnegie
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectati... - Charles F. Kettering
I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs. - David Ogilvy
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if an... - Winston Churchill
I buy when other people are selling. - J. Paul Getty
I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separa... - Ralph Nader
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cr... - John Cleese
I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting p... - Tiger Woods
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. - Sir Edward Appleton
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry,... - Henry David Thoreau
I want to put a ding in the universe. - Steve Jobs
I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection... - Jennifer Aniston
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about... - Lord Acton
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a concl... - George Bernard Shaw
If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisi... - Lee Iacocca
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorabl... - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, conso... - Jane Fonda
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give... - Abraham Lincoln
If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happ... - Thomas J. Watson
If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable. - Will Rogers
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that... - Kahlil Gibran
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business. - B. C. Forbes
If you have to forecast, forecast often. - Edgar R. Fiedler
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great p... - Robert H. Schuller
If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - howeve... - Theodore H. White
If you owe the bank 0 that's your problem. If you owe the bank 0... - J. Paul Getty
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is... - William Wordsworth
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experie... - Harold S. Geneen
In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. - Benjamin Franklin
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and t... - Scott Adams
Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network. - Mitchell Kapor
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu ... - Mark Twain
It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain. - Dale Dauten
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. - Tom Brokaw
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts. - Will Rogers
It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits. - Charles A. Jaffe
It's time to reappreciate the original software: paper. - Dale Dauten
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't me... - Thomas A. Edison
Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge and insight... - Gary Ryan Blair
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambiti... - Robert Browning
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a ... - Lord Acton
Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look... - Meg Whitman
Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task ... - John Greenleaf Whittier
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by pe... - Dale Carnegie
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for pe... - Peter F. Drucker
My son is now an "entrepreneur." That's what you're called when you do... - Ted Turner
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's ch... - Abraham Lincoln
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the en... - Niccolo Machiavelli
Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They li... - Richard Nelson Bolles
Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in ... - Isaac Asimov
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what ... - Thomas J. Watson
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes o... - Henry Ford
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem b... - Arnold H. Glasow
One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a prob... - Arnold H. Glasow
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it sud... - A. C. Benson
Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away pr... - Scott McNealy
Our favourite holding period is forever. - Warren Buffett
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. - Edward Gibbon
People of medicore ability sometimes achieve outstanding success becau... - George Allen
People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.' - Sinclair Lewis
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. - Colin Powell
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast a... - W. Edwards Deming
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on ... - Don Marquis
Real riches are the riches possessed inside. - B. C. Forbes
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader. - Tacitus
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a ... - Frank Lloyd Wright
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says "Go!"... - E. M. Kelly
Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expens... - Scott Adams
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. - Les Brown
So little done, so much to do. - Cecil Rhodes
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit th... - Steve Jobs
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. - Dr. Paul Tournier
Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on... - Charles A. Jaffe
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude e... - Walter Scott
Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on t... - H. S. M. Burns
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's ... - Arthur C. Clarke
The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. - Rupert Murdoch
The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' -a lead... - E. M. Kelly
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody... - Michael Korda
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men t... - Walter Lippmann
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is... - Max de Pree
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the bu... - Ambrose Bierce
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which c... - Walter Lippmann
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the... - Blaine Lee
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. - Albert Einstein
The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent ... - Edgar R. Fiedler
The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrive... - Jack Anderson
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside ou... - Blaine Lee
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persist... - Napoleon Hill
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how... - Henry Ford
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights. - J. Paul Getty
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged a... - Andre Maurois
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understan... - Confucius
The very essence of leadership is that you have a vision. It's got to ... - Theodore Hesburgh
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doin... - Benjamin Jowett
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. - Josh Billings
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing ... - Thomas Carlyle
The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ... - Igor Sikorsky
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard... - Colin Powell
There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge mor... - Jeff Bezos
There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. - Peter F. Drucker
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. A... - Coco Chanel
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now i... - Adlai E. Stevenson
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else ca... - Peter F. Drucker
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. - Andre Malraux
To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 18... - Alvin Toffler
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to... - W. Clement Stone
Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American busines... - Mason Cooley
We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference. - Steve Ballmer
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we posse... - Alexis de Tocqueville
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don'... - Tim Berners-Lee
Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles c... - Charles A. Jaffe
What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some peop... - Steve Ballmer
What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out the... - Paul A. Volcker
When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, pond... - James H. Boren
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long ... - Alexander Graham Bell
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been att... - Thomas J. Watson
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to ... - Mark Twain
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to b... - William A. Ward
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think ... - Tom Brokaw
You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear... - Steve Ross