A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
William Feather
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
A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.
Bobby Darin
About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Herbert Hoover
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 is in itself a power.
Garet Garrett
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
Henry Ford
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
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
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
Walt Disney
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 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
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
Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.
Tom Allen
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
Thursday, July 7, 2011
All About BUSINESS QUOTES - 1
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