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1. The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. Its as simple as that. A lot of people have

ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today.

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. Nolan Bushnell

2. My son is now an entrepreneur. Thats what youre called when you dont have a job. Ted Turner

5. I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it! Dont sit down and wait for the

opportunities to come. Get up and make them! C.J. Walker

6. The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once

you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it. Debbi Fields

7. Life is too complicated not to be orderly. Martha Stewart

8. The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate

their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they cant do. Dennis Waitley

11. There is no royal, flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it. For if I have

accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard. C.J. Walker

12. Business is more exciting than any game. Lord Beaverbrook

13. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. Albert Einstein

14. We are currently not planning on conquering the world. Sergey Brin

15. If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business thered be millions of no-brained,

harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles.

Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan. Bill Rancic

16. It takes more than capital to swing business. Youve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by Advertising,

Initiative, and Dynamics. Ren Mulford Jr.

17. For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even asthe deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or

get busy. Bill O Reilly

20. To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult. Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth

21. I like thinking big. If youre going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. Donald Trump

22. Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but thats exactly what it is and what nurtures creative

thinking. Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; its about trading: buying and selling.

Anita Roddick

23. To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully. Tryon Edwards26. The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business

better all the time. Henry Ford

27. The good or ill of a man lies within his own will. Epictetus

28. I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves

miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had

no time for friend making. B.C. Forbes

29. The cynic says, One man cant do anything. I say, Only one man can do anything. - John W. Gardner


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31. If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. Ingvar Kamprad

32. Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with

improving your other innovations. Steve Jobs

33. Youve got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. Its called

perseverance. Lee Iacocca

34. The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. Laurence Sterne

35. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if youre not frightened by these

things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. David Rockefeller

36. Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman. George Soros

37. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight Eisenhower

39. The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm. Thomas J.

Watson

40. Yesterdays home runs dont win todays games. Babe Ruth

41. Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge

blessing. Magic Johnson

42. Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. James Thurber

43. The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The

amount of work is the same. Carlos Castaneda

46. To the degree were not living our dreams; our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over

ourselves. Peter McWilliams

47. The enemy of the truth is very often not the lie deliberate, contrived, and dishonest but the myth-

persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. John F. Kennedy

49. The NBA is never just a business. Its always business. Its always personal. All good businesses are personal.

The best businesses are very personal. Mark Cuban

50. You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. Joseph E.

Levine

51. A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. Richard

Branson

52. The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. Peter F.

Drucker

53. No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not

for itself, but for others.. or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist. Calvin Coolidge

54. Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition in having put forth the best

within you. Henry J. Kaiser

55. Winning is not a sometime thing; its an all time thing. You dont win once in a while, you dont do things

right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Vince Lombardi


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76. You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and

encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins. Jim Stovall

77. The only way around is through. Robert Frost

78. You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you dont do too many things wrong.

Warren Buffett

79. The noblest search is the search for excellence Lyndon B. Johnson

80. The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to neither make money nor

find much fun in life. Charles M. Schwab

81. You must remain focused on your journey to greatness. Les Brown

82. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. Theodore

Roosevelt

83. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. Charles F. Kettering

84. Whether you think you can or whether you think you cant, youre right! Henry Ford

85. You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills. Jim Rohn

86. Who likes not his business, his business likes not him. William Hazlitt

87. The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many. John

Naisbitt

88. 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

89. Its through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that weve always mapped our path at Dell.

Theres always an opportunity to make a difference. Michael Dell

90. If you work just for money, youll never make it, but if you love what youre doing and you always put the

customer first, success will be yours. Ray Kroc

91. Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the

top so exhilarating. Denis Waitley

92. Management is nothing more than motivating other people. Le Iacocca

93. Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. Dwight

D. Eisenhower

94. The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is

asking the wrong question. Peter Drucker

95. Why did I want to win? Because I didnt want to lose! Max Schmelling

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97. To win without risk is to triumph without glory. Pierre Corneille

99. Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about

it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business. Zig Ziglar


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100. I wasnt satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement. Donald Trump

101. Whether its Google or Apple or free software, weve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our

toes. Bill Gates

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

Aldus Manutius (1449 - 1515), Placard on the door of the Aldine Press

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

Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790(

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933), Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 1925

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

David Letterman (1947 -(

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you

create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good

salesman.

David M. Ogilvy


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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.

David Rockefeller (1915 -(

Heres my theory about meetings and life; the three things you cant fake are erections, competence and creativity.Thats why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they

can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes.

One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals

their mouth while they nod at you and say, 'Mmmmmm. Interesting.' If pressed, theyll add, 'Ill have to get back to

you on that.' Then they dont say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you

undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006

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

George Ade (1866 - 1944), "The Steel Box", 1898

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen, Designing the Friendly Skies, 06-21-06

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese (1939 -(

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.


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Jurgen Schrempp, Former CEO of DaimlerChrysler

The more I know about business, the more Im convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than

in office buildings.

Laura Moncur, Merriton, 09-17-08

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan, CEO, E*Trade Group Inc.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to

win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to

make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin, Seth Godin's Blog, 07-28-06

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows, in Marian Christy, ''Mayflower Madam' Tells All,' Boston Globe, 1986

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.


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Tara Hunt, HorsePigCow, 07-12-06

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

Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929(

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

For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic

enough .

Zig Ziglar quotes (American motivational Speaker and Author( .

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 .

Stewart B. Johnson quotes (British artist known for his figurative work (

Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust .

Zig Ziglar quotes (American motivational Speaker and Author( .

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to

completion .

Jack Welch quotes


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To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art

Chinese Proverbs quotes

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business

Mahatma Gandhi quotes (Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest, 1869-

1948(

Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame

himself for product failure

I understand small business growth. I was one . George W. Bush

The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve

the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals .

Rensis Likert quotes

If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're

not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there ?

Robert Townsend quotes

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

David Joseph Schwartz quotes


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Business is like sex. When it's good, it's very, very good; when it's not so good, it's still good .

George Katona quotes

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Unless you've got a

good team, you can't do much with the other two .

Lee Iacocca quotes

A project is complete when it starts working for you, rather than you working for it .

Scott Allen quotes

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep

pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer .

Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862(

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business .

Winston Churchill quotes (British Orator, Author and Prime Minister during World War II. 1874-1965(

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision

Peter F. Drucker quotes (American Educator and Writer, b.1909(

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them .


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John H. Patterson quotes

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work .

Earl Nightingale quotes (US motivational writer and author, 1921-1989(

If I would be in this business for business, I wouldn't be in this business .

Sol Hurok quotes

Good counselors lack no clients

William Shakespeare quotes (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616(

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves

E. Joseph Cossman quotes (Entrepreneur(

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

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Warren Buffett quotes

In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time

Owen Felltham quotes


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

incessant business | Henry David Thoreau

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnifythe efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency | Bill

Gates

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

things | Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus puerisque, 1881

I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages | Robert

Bosch

In college, Yuppies major in business administration. If to meet certain requirements they have to take a liberal arts

course, they take Business Poetry | Dave Barry

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in man | Author Unknown

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions | Edward R. Murrow

Make the workmanship surpass the materials | Ovid

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation | Howard Scott


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The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules | Elting E. Morison

There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values | Author Unknown

For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck

is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get

busy | Bill O'Reilly, about capitalism

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning | Bill Gates, Business @ the Speed of Thought

People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please | Will Rogers

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart | Thomas Watson,

Sr.

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view

that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well | Alan Greenspan

Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at

home | Smiley Blanton

Let's be honest. There's not a business anywhere that is without problems. Business is complicated and imperfect.

Every business everywhere is staffed with imperfect human beings and exists by providing a product or service to

other imperfect human beings | Bob Parsons


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Successful enterprises are usually led by a proven chief executive who is a competent benevolent dictator | Richard

Pratt

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

The NBA is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The

best businesses are very personal | Mark Cuban

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but

only performance is reality | Harold Geneen

You can't file a conversation | Author Unknown

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create

an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak | Jay Leno

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

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


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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.


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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.


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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


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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


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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

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the

achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Charles Kettering

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Winston Churchill

I buy when other people are selling.

J. Paul Getty


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

Ralph Nader

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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

Tiger Woods

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

Edward Appleton

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

incessant business.

Henry David Thoreau

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Steve Jobs

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.

Jennifer Aniston

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Lord Acton

I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy.

My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.

Debbi Fields


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

George Bernard Shaw

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is

without them.

Jane Fonda

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Abraham Lincoln

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.

Thomas J. Watson

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

Will Rogers

Each Forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind | John Lancaster Spalding

A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills

Doing your best is more important than being the best

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for.

We are the change that we seek

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is, try to please

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