Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow
only when they are preparing to use it; when they
do not require it, they allow it to remain unbent,
for otherwise it would remain unserviceable when
the time for using it arrived. So it is with man.
If he were to devote himself unceasingly to a dull
round of business, without breaking the monotony
by cheerful amusements, he would fall
imperceptibly into idiocy, or be struck by
paralysis
- Herodotu
Wherever you see a successful business, someone
once made a courageous decision.
- Peter F. Drucker
It is unfortunate we can't buy many business
executives for what they are worth and sell them
for what they think they are worth.
- Malcolm Forbes
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny
- Elbert Hubbard
The fewer data needed, the better the information.
And an overload of information, that is, anything
much beyond what is truly needed, leads to
information blackout. It does not enrich, but
impoverishes.
- Peter F.Drucker
Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at
a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
- Thomas Carlyle
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can
gather strength from distress, and grow brave by
reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to
shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose
conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his
principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
(1737-1809)
Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is
the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It
is a business asset. It attracts and keeps
friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the
direct route to serenity and contentment.
- Grenville Kleiser
A man to carry on a successful business must have
imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a
dream of the whole thing.
- Charles M Schwab
American stockbroker
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure;
it interests the whole mind ... more deeply. But
it does not look as if it did.
- Walt Bagehot
economist
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman.
Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes
naturally to me.
- John Cleese
It is awfully important to know what is and what
is not your business.
- Gertrude Stein
Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant
sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off
the map.
- Wayne Calloway
Most business plans fail. Obviously, success is
not a realistic goal But the people who manage the
most spectacular failures get promoted because of
their experience.
- Dogbert
To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the
business of life.
- Samuel Johnson
Essayist, Lexicographer
If you do a lot of things to build business,
you'll build business. They don't have to be done
perfectly to work, although the better you do
them, the better they'll work. But the main point
is that you have to do them -- a lot.
- Joe Girard (02/01/28-)
How To Sell Anything To Anybody
There's no business like show business, but there
are several businesses like accounting
- David Letterman
You have to learn to treat people as a
resource......you have to ask not what do they
cost, but what is the yield, what can they
produce?
- Peter F. Drucker
The things that will destroy us are: politics
without principle; pleasure without conscience;
wealth without work; knowledge without character;
business without morality; science without
humanity; and worship without sacrifice.
- Mahatma Gandhi
It is change, continuing change, inevitable
change, that is the dominant factor in society
today. No sensible decision can be made any longer
without taking into account not only the world as
it is, but the world as it will be...This, in
turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen,
our everyman must take on a science fictional way
of thinking.
- Isaac Asimov
Mr. Ward, what is it that the foulest bastards on
earth denounce us for, among other things? Oh yes,
for our motto of 'Business as usual.'
Well--business as usual, Mr. Ward!
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
There's no business like show business
- Irving Berlin
Our favourite holding period is forever.
- Warren Buffet
Cut your losses and let your profits run.
- Proverb
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't
thinking.
- General George S. Patton
A market is never saturated with a good product,
but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
- Henry Ford
The purpose of a business is to create and keep
customers.
- Theodore Levitt
Almost all quality improvement comes via
simplification of design, manufacturing,, layout,
processes, and procedures.
- Tom Peters
It's a poor workman who blames his tools.
- Unknown
Most of what we call management consists of making
it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and
under-led.
- Warren G. Bennis
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do
business in great waters. These see the works of
the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
- Bible, Psalms 107:23
Profit in business comes from repeat customers,
customers that boast about your project or
service, and that bring friends with them.
- W. Edwards Deming
Whenever an individual or a business decides that
success has been attained, progress stops.
- Thomas J. Watson Jr
A committee is a life form with six or more legs
and no brain.
- Robert A. Heinlein
All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like
these win consistently because everyone connected
with them concentrates on specific objectives.
They go about their business with blinders on;
nothing will distract them from achieving their
aims.
- Lou Holtz, former Notre Dame football coach
Exposure plus 95 cents might buy you a decent cup
of coffee. The key is to 'position' yourself in
your market as the expert, the resource, the only
person your prospect would ever even THINK of
doing business with, or referring to others.
- Bob Burg
Business is good, the Universe is expanding.
- Tony Follari
Comedian