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Fred's Favorite Quotes About Business
The individual is the
central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.
-- Peter F. Drucker
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
-- Peter F. Drucker
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being
said.
-- Peter F. Drucker
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad
judgment.
-- Rita Mae Brown
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to
see.
-- Winston Churchill
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of
enthusiasm.
-- Winston Churchill
Never confuse motion with action.
-- Ben Franklin
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends--
It gives a lovely light!
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief
that one's work is terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell
Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because
the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous
employment for man's nobler faculties.
-- Henry David Thoreau
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of
advertising.
-- Mark Twain
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide
stupidity there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.
-- Mark Twain
Stupidity got us into this mess, why can't it get us out?
-- Will Rogers
Things should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
-- Albert Einstein
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not
be done at all.
-- Peter F. Drucker
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they
were to success when they gave up.
-- Thomas Alva Edison
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it is written on.
-- Samuel Goldwyn (1882--1974)
For every problem, there is one solution, which is simple, neat and
wrong.
-- Henry Louis Mencken (1880--1956)
There is no security on this earth. There is only opportunity.
-- Douglas Macarthur
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people
always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can
become great.
-- Mark Twain
Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely
ones.
-- Nancy Astor
You must choose between making money and making sense. The two are
mutually exclusive.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller
Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business.
It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will
know what you stand for and like you for it.
-- M. Anthony Burns
In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every
three weeks.
-- Scott McNealy |
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