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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas A. Edison
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
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
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
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
Peter Drucker
My son is now an "entrepreneur." That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
Ted Turner
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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
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
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
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Arnold H. Glasow
One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Arnold H. Glasow
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
Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.
Scott McNealy
Our favorite holding period is forever.
Warren Buffett
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Edward Gibbon
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 about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
W. Edwards Deming
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
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 cathedral.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
Scott Adams
So little done, so much to do.
Cecil Rhodes
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Steve Jobs
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Paul Tournier
Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.
Charles A. Jaffe
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Walter Scott
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
The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.
Rupert Murdoch
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
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
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 gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce
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 great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
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 thinkers.
Edgar R. Fiedler
The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
Jack Anderson
The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.
Mitt Romney
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
Blaine Lee
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
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
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 as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
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 understands what will sell.
Confucius
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
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 hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Thomas Carlyle
The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.
Igor Sikorsky
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell
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
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
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
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
Peter 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 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.
Alvin Toffler
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
W. Clement Stone
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 possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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
Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do.
Charles A. Jaffe
What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.
Blaine Lee
What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'
Steve Ballmer
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
When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.
James H. Boren
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
Thomas J. Watson
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
William Arthur Ward
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
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
