1. I buy when other people are selling. - J. Paul Getty
2. 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
3. Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader. - Tacitus
4. Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers. - Ross Perot
5. Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. - Scott Adams
6. Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart. - Scott Adams
7. The opportunity is often lost by deliberating. - Publilius Syrus
8. Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country. - Norman Cousins
9. 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
10. 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
11. Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. - Thomas J. Watson
12. I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations. - Ralph Nader
13. If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them. - Jane Fonda
14. Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. - John Kenneth Galbraith
15. Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work. - Warren Bennis
16. One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. - Arnold H. Glasow
17. A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee. - Arnold H. Glasow
18. 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
19. 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
20. For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. - Charles Baudelaire
21. As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth. - John Greenleaf Whittier
22. An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. - Laurence J. Peter
23. It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. - Tom Brokaw
24. Exchange ideas frequently. - James Cash Penney
25. I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier. - James Cash Penney
26. I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. - John Cleese
27. The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government. - Mitt Romney
28. Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
29. An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. - Fred Allen
30. 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
31. 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
32. 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
33. Never argue with a profit. - Jeff Rich
34. 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
35. Business is a combination of war and sport. - Andre Maurois
36. 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
37. Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. - Edward Gibbon
38. Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. - Don Marquis
39. Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. - Don Marquis
40. My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job. - Ted Turner
41. 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
42. Word of mouth is the best medium of all. - William Bernbach
43. The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. - Rupert Murdoch
44. If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something. - Rupert Murdoch
45. Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today. - Peter Diamandis
46. An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it. - Dee Hock
47. So little done, so much to do. - Cecil Rhodes
48. 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
49. If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty. - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
50. The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis
51. One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it's the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you're dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you. - Reid Hoffman
52. 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
53. The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. - Benjamin Jowett
54. We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference. - Steve Ballmer
55. What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?' - Steve Ballmer
56. I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. - John Dalberg-Acton
57. If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business. - B. C. Forbes
58. 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
59. 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
60. Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard. - Edgar Fiedler
61. The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers. - Edgar Fiedler
62. If you have to forecast, forecast often. - Edgar Fiedler
63. All lasting business is built on friendship. - Alfred A. Montapert
64. To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. - Andre Malraux
65. People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.' - Sinclair Lewis
66. The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it.' - Eric Schmidt
67. Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network. - Mitch Kapor
68. Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change. - An Wang
69. First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people. - Leo Rosten
70. Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left. - John Ray
71. There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it. - Marc Andreessen
72. Details create the big picture. - Sanford I. Weill
73. A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his. - Bobby Darin
74. Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities. - Tom Allen
75. 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
76. Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with. - Paula Abdul
77. 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
78. If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars. - James Surowiecki
79. Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. - Evan Esar
80. 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
81. 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
82. 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
83. Cannibals prefer those who have no spines. - Stanislaw Lem
84. Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness. - Stanislaw Lem
85. 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
86. My father told me, never have partners. - Howard Hughes
87. 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
88. Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business. - William Wycherley
89. When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder. - James H. Boren
90. The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork. - Igor Sikorsky
91. Business can be a source of progressive change. - Jerry Greenfield
92. If you fire people, you fire customers. - Ferdinand Piech
93. 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
94. A manager doesn't hear the cheers. - Alvin Dark
95. 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
96. It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain. - Dale Dauten
97. We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world. - Yuan T. Lee
98. No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company. - Edward Whitacre, Jr.
99. I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. - Edward Appleton
100. The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself. - Blaine Lee
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