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Ted Turner

My son is now an "entrepreneur." That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

E. M. Kelly

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says "Go!" - a leader says "Let's go!"

Charles A. Jaffe

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.

Andrew Carnegie

Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the b

Frank Lloyd Wright

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

William Wordsworth

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.

Tiger Woods

I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.

Robin Williams

Carpe per diem - seize the check.

John Greenleaf Whittier

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Meg Whitman

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.

Theodore White

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

Thomas J. Watson

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Thomas J. Watson

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.

Andy Warhol

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.

Paul A. Volcker

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.

Mark Twain

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Mark Twain

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Ted Turner

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

My son is now an entrepreneur. That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

Alvin Toffler

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.

Alexis de Tocqueville

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

Henry David Thoreau

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Igor Sikorsky

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.

George Bernard Shaw

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

Walter Scott

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Robert H. Schuller

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Steve Ross

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.

Will Rogers

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

Will Rogers

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

Will Rogers

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.

Colin Powell

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.

Tom Peters

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

William Penn

Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.

Robert Orben

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.

Aristotle Onassis

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

David Ogilvy

I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.

Ralph Nader

I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.

Alfred A. Montapert

All lasting business is built on friendship.

Scott McNealy

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

Andre Maurois

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Don Marquis

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

Henry R. Luce

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Sinclair Lewis

People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'

Stanislaw Lem

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.

Blaine Lee

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

Tim Berners-Lee

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

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.

Charles Kettering

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

E. M. Kelly

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says Go! - a leader says Let's go!

E. M. Kelly

The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' -a leader says, 'Let's go!'.

David Letterman

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

Henry Ford

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Irving Berlin

There's no business like show business.

B. C. Forbes

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

William Penn

Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.

Ambrose Bierce

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

D. W. Brogan

For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.

Johann von Goethe

If I love you, what business is it of yours

Miguel de Cervantes

Let every man mind his own business.

Aristotle Onassis

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Will Rogers

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

William Shakespeare

Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.

Clarence Darrow

The law is a horrible business.

Andre Maurois

Business is a combination of war and sport.

J. R. R. Tolkien

It's a dangerous business going out your front door.

Margaret Hilda Thatcher

I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.

David Smith

In this business you either sink or swim or you don't.

Michel Fortin

Do what you love and the business will follow.

Arab Proverb

Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.

George Ade

'Whom are you' he asked, for he had attended business college.

Alfred A. Montapert

All lasting business is built on friendship.

George Burns

I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.

Ronald Reagan

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Colonel Sanders

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

David Joseph Schwartz

The success combination in business is Do what you do better...and Do more of what you do...

Sydney Biddle Barrows

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Don Marquis

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

William Wordsworth

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.

Peter F. Drucker

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

Stuart Henderson

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.

William Faulkner

Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.

Robert Browning

My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.

Ralph Nader

I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.

Norman Cousins

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down.

Jack Anderson

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

FIELDING: _Tom Thumb the Great,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business.

Miguel de Cervantes

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.

William Shakespeare

To business that we love, we rise betime and go to't with delight.

Scott McNealy

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

Johnny Carson

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.

Epictetus

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

Hume Cronyn

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

The maxim of the British people is 'Business as Usual.'

William Butler Yeats

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

Peter Drucker

In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a nonworld.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

John Morley

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.

All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, i

The chief business of the American people is business.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

What business strategy is all about; what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning - is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable t

"The business of America is business." -- Calvin Coolidge

It's been a business doing pleasure with you.

Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.

When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business.

What other people think about me is not my business.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.

I'm still so confused with this E-mail business.

Actual war is a very messy business.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Hurting people is my business.

A dinner lubricates business.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?

In the whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing its best to flower.

Make somebody happy. Mind your own business.

'Tain't nobody's business (not even mine)

Boxing is just show business with blood.

I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

Haste in every business brings failures.

Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers.

I really do plan to get out of show business within five years or so.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made.

"A journalist is a professional whose business it is to explain to others what

Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

You know criticism when you get into this business. You accept the bad with the good, the tabloids and the positive side of it.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

Business is a good game - lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.

One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

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