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Mitchell Kapor

Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.

Steve Jobs

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Steve Jobs

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Charles A. Jaffe

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

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

It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.

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.

Lee Iacocca

If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.

Herbert Hoover

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

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Arnold H. Glasow

One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Edward Gibbon

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

J. Paul Getty

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

I buy when other people are selling.

Harold S. Geneen

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

Robert Frost

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Benjamin Franklin

In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

Henry Ford

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

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

Henry Ford

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

B. C. Forbes

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

Jane Fonda

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Edgar R. Fiedler

If you have to forecast, forecast often.

Edgar R. Fiedler

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

Edgar R. Fiedler

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

Edgar R. Fiedler

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.

William Feather

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

Evan Esar

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.

Thomas A. Edison

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

Peter F. Drucker

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

Peter F. Drucker

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

W. Edwards Deming

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

Dale Dauten

A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.

Dale Dauten

It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.

Dale Dauten

It's time to reappreciate the original software: paper.

Jim Cramer

Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still am capable of forgetting a cardinal rule: The paper you own, in the end, will be intertwined with the fate of the 30-year bond.

Stephen Covey

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.

Norman Cousins

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

Mason Cooley

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Confucius

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Coco Chanel

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

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 best machinery, and know the most about it.

H. S. M. Burns

Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements.

Warren Buffett

Our favourite holding period is forever.

Tom Brokaw

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

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

James H. Boren

When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.

Richard Nelson Bolles

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.

Thomas J. Watson

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

A. M. Rosenthal

If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.

Steven Wright

Yesterday I saw a chicken crossing the road. I asked it why.It told me it was none of my business.

Henry Ward Beecher

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Robert Louis Stephenson

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

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.

Donald Sinden

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.

Horace

He's happy who, far away from business, like the races of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay.

Bennett Alfred Cerf

Censor a self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.

Andrew Schneider

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off

SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return.

William John Bennett

If my own son, who is now 10 months, came to me and said, 'You promised to pay for my tuition at Harvard how about giving me 50,000 instead to start a little business' I might think that was a good idea.

George Pratt Shultz

I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that.

Calista Flockhart

So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

Warren Buffett

I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's a fantastic brand loyalty.

Henry David Thoreau

Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Michael Horton

Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.

Edna Ferber

Living in the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.

Thomas Paine

'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.

Claude M. Bristol

Strong minded, resolutely willed, you can create out of nothing a great business, a huge empire, a new world. Others have and they have no monopoly.

David Rockefeller

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

HERBERT: _Temple, Church Porch,_ St. 57.

Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where And when, and how thy business may be done, Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, Though he alights sometimes, still goeth on.

Bill Vaughn

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

Dean Gooderham Acheson

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Julius Rosenwald

Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.

Paul Valery

La politique est l'art d'empcher les gens de se mler de ce qui les regarde. (Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

Walter Scott

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

Jay Leno

There's this big pie in show business, and you physically can't eat the whole pie. If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough. The real trick is not to try to get the whole pie, but to keep the biggest slice.

Lionel Richie

The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway.

Bette Davis

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

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

Samuel Johnson

Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.

W. Edwards Deming

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

Elbert Hubbard

Editor a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

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.

Henry Steele Commager

It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Playing dead not only comes in handy when face to face with a bear, but also at important business meetings.

Ralph Lauren

We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway.polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business.

Henry Robinson Luce

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

Henry Bromel

We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure--full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.

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

Irving

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

H.L. Mencken

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

Jennifer Aniston

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.

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 best machinery, and know the most about it.

Woodrow Wilson

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

George Bernard Shaw

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

James Burke

When the printing press was developed in the fifteenth century it was said that printed books would make reading and writing the infatuation of people who have no business reading and writing.

Michael J. Fox

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for perfection is God's business.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be looking outside himself for guidance.

Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as suits.

Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople Get Ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp-looking report.

Though inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.

For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.

"There are plenty of businesses like show business." - Bart's Board

"Telepathy is minding someone else's business." -- Luxwana Troi

"Business is good Quark, you're almost making an honest living." - Odo

"First impressions are of major importance in business matters." FINCH

"Extortion is my business" - Ernst Stavro Blofeld (You Only Live Twice)

"We'll do this business with cold steel." -General Sir Thomas Picton

"Shot by a firing squad & raped by a business suit..."

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

"The hottentots.. are running amok in the music business." - Rosebud

Editor: a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to seperate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

"Extortion is my business" - Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Y.O.L.T.)

"Our business is largely word of foot." -- BJ to Lt. Chivers

"She's got the best leg flop in the business." -- Crow T. Robot

"I think I'm gonna go into the family business." Charlie Calvin

"Think they fantasize about wearing business suits?" -- Crow

"Ace Frehley has the same kind of business" -- Crow T. Robot

"My personal computer just told me to mind my own business."

"Our business in this world is to fail in good spirits."

"He's claiming three robots as business expenses." Tom Servo

"Make it quick, I have important business." Quark to Odo

"I'm in the greeting card business" - Maxwell Smart

"Is-ness is our business." -- Elton Hall, on philosophers

"I say good business is where you find it" - Dick Jones

"Lotta goofin' off in the undercover business..." -- Tom Servo

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit.

I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.

"Approach, bow, scrape, and state your business"

"To boldly go where no sane person has any business!"

"Nobody kills anybody in my place of business 'cept me or Zed."

"No one hates this war business better than I do." -- Frank Burns

"I'm the pro-business candidate" - Bill Clinton

"It's a business to do pleasure with you", said Mary tartly.

"It's a pleasure doing business with you, Mr. Spock." Kirk

"What? And quit show business?" -- Tom Servo

"What? And quit show business?" -- Tom Servo

"Go forth, and finish business." - Dominic T. Stilton

"Ops to Rio Grande... You are in business." Major Kira

"It's not personal, Sonny..It's strictly business."

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