Albert Einstein
Thomas A. Edison
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Confucius
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
John Greenleaf Whittier
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Niccolo Machiavelli
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Laurence J. Peter
All lasting business is built on friendship.
Alfred A. Montapert
I want to put a ding in the universe.
Steve Jobs
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Thomas A. Edison
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Henry R. Luce
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill
A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
William Feather
Walter Scott
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
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
John Kenneth Galbraith
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
Peter Drucker
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
Jack Welch
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 is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.
Debbi Fields
Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.
Tom Allen
When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?
Glenn Beck
Business can be a source of progressive change.
Jerry Greenfield
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
J. Paul Getty
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
I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.
Tiger Woods
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
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
Norman Cousins
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.
Paul A. Volcker
The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.
Igor Sikorsky
I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.
Ralph Nader
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Thomas Carlyle
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Paul Tournier
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
Jane Fonda
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
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 was a kid.
Thomas J. Watson
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
What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'
Steve Ballmer
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
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
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
If you have to forecast, forecast often.
Edgar R. Fiedler
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
Thomas J. Watson
Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.
Scott McNealy
It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
Dale Dauten
We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.
Steve Ballmer
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
Blaine Lee
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
Blaine Lee
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
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
Andre Malraux
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
A. C. Benson
Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
B. C. Forbes
The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
Jack Anderson
Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.
Mitchell Kapor
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
Evan Esar
The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
Edgar R. Fiedler
What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.
Blaine Lee
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
David Ogilvy
People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'
Sinclair Lewis
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
Will Rogers
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
Arthur C. Clarke
Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
Scott Adams
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
Thomas J. Watson
Business is in itself a power.
Garet Garrett
The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.
Mitt Romney
If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.
Will Rogers
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
Frank Lloyd Wright
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Mark Twain
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
Benjamin Jowett
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Arnold H. Glasow
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
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader
Tacitus
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
George Bernard Shaw
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Edward Gibbon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
Lord Acton
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
Edward Appleton
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Don Marquis
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
W. Clement Stone
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
Our favorite holding period is forever.
Warren Buffett
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Charles Kettering
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.
Isaac Asimov
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
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
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
W. Edwards Deming
My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
Ted Turner
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
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
The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.
Rupert Murdoch
Carpe per diem - seize the check.
Robin Williams
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
Harold S. Geneen
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
B. C. Forbes
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
Walt Disney
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
John Cleese
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
Tim Berners-Lee
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
William Arthur Ward
So little done, so much to do.
Cecil Rhodes
Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
Stanislaw Lem
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Colin Powell
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
Peter Drucker
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Henry Ward Beecher
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
Tom Brokaw
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
A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.
Bobby Darin
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Winston Churchill
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
Aristotle Onassis
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
An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
Will Rogers
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Thomas Carlyle
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Abraham Lincoln
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
Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
Stanislaw Lem
When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.
James H. Boren
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
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
Peter Drucker
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
Scott Adams
The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife.
David Ogilvy
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
Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.
Andy Warhol
I buy when other people are selling.
J. Paul Getty
About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Herbert Hoover
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
If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
J. Paul Getty
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Robert H. Schuller
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Khalil Gibran
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
Business is a combination of war and sport.
Andre Maurois
Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.
Edgar R. Fiedler
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin
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
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
Fred Allen
Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
Peter Drucker
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 miss lunch.
Tim Berners-Lee
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
Tom Peters
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
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Steve Jobs
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
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
Henry Ford
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