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A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
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 cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
Stephen Covey
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 terror.
Al Boliska
All lasting business is built on friendship.
Alfred A. Montapert
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
Tom Peters
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
Fred Allen
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
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 individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Andrew Carnegie
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
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 went to Harvard.
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 the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Henry R. Luce
Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
Peter Drucker
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
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 individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce
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
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
Evan Esar
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
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 it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
Will Rogers
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
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 good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Howard Aiken
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
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Stephen 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're always tax-deductible.
Andy Warhol
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
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
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Henry Ward Beecher
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Robert H. Schuller
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.
Charles A. Jaffe
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
Norman Cousins
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
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
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
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Charles Kettering
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
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 separation of calories and corporations.
Ralph Nader
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
John Cleese
I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.
Tiger Woods
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
Edward Appleton
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
I want to put a ding in the universe.
Steve Jobs
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
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
Lord Acton
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
George Bernard Shaw
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
Jane Fonda
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Abraham Lincoln
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
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 you should leave your work.
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 person you might have been.
Robert H. Schuller
If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.
Theodore White
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
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
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
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
Scott Adams
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs
Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.
Mitchell Kapor
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
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
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
