Business Quotes and Sayings
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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. Lord Acton
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Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. Scott Adams
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Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart. Scott Adams
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An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. Fred Allen
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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 job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act. Jennifer Aniston
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Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once. Isaac Asimov
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Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. Howard Aiken
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The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark. Jack Anderson
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I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. Edward Appleton
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We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference. Steve Ballmer
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What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?' Steve Ballmer
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. Henry Ward Beecher
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. Ambrose Bierce
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. Ambrose Bierce
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The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. Josh Billings
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It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. Tom Brokaw
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You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world. Tom Brokaw
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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, but never reach the top. Robert Browning
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Our favorite holding period is forever. Warren Buffett
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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, but never reach the top. Robert Burton
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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. Jeff Bezos
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Do 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. Gary Ryan Blair
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Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror. Al Boliska
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Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do. Richard Nelson Bolles
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. Thomas Carlyle
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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. Thomas Carlyle
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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 fittest in every department. Andrew Carnegie
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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. Dale Carnegie
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There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time! Coco Chanel
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I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod. Winston Churchill
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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. John Cleese
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The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. Confucius
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Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country. Norman Cousins
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A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships. Stephen Covey
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Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. Stephen Covey
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Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money. Peter Drucker
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Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. Peter Drucker
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Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. Peter Drucker
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It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain. Dale Dauten
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The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. Albert Einstein
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Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either. Evan Esar
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Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. Evan Esar
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A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it. William Feather
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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them. Jane Fonda
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A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. Henry Ford
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. Henry Ford
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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 a dollar, is bound to succeed. Henry Ford
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Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. Harry Emerson Fosdick
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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. Benjamin Franklin
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In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin
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By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. Robert Frost
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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. Edward Gibbon
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If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. Kahlil Gibran
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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. Napoleon Hill
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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. Napoleon Hill
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About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends. Herbert Hoover
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Economic 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. Herbert Hoover
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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. Napolean Hill
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I want to put a ding in the universe. Steve Jobs
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Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. Steve Jobs
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Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. Steve Jobs
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The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. Benjamin Jowett
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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. Charles Kettering
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The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own. Michael Korda
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Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network. Mitchell Kapor
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance. Abraham Lincoln
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln
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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. Walter Lippmann
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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. Walter Lippmann
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The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. Blaine Lee
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The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself. Blaine Lee
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What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful. Blaine Lee
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Cannibals prefer those who have no spines. Stanislaw Lem
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Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness. Stanislaw Lem
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People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.' Sinclair Lewis
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No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. Niccolo Machiavelli
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. Andre Malraux
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Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. Don Marquis
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Business is a combination of war and sport. Andre Maurois
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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. Andre Maurois
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The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. Max de Pree
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An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's. Will Rogers
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Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it. Will Rogers
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If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable. Will Rogers
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It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts. Will Rogers
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Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products. Scott McNealy
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So little done, so much to do. Cecil Rhodes
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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. Rupert Murdoch
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I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations. Ralph Nader
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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. Aristotle Onassis
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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. Robert Orben
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Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures. Tom Peters
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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. Colin Powell
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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. Colin Powell
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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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. Steve Ross
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Happiness 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. Theodore Isaac Rubin
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. Walter Scott
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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. George Bernard Shaw
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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 interest. Adam Smith
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The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork. Igor Sikorsky
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader. Tacitus
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I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. Henry David Thoreau
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We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. Alexis de Tocqueville
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To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke. Alvin Toffler
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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. Ted Turner
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My son is now an "entrepreneur." That's what you're called when you don't have a job. Ted Turner
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It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Mark Twain
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. Mark Twain
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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. Paul Tournier
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Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible. Andy Warhol
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If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet. Theodore White
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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth. John Greenleaf Whittier
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Carpe per diem - seize the check. Robin Williams
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I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love. Tiger Woods
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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. William Wordsworth
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. Frank Lloyd Wright
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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 somewhere else. Sam Walton
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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 good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net. Meg Whitman
