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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

The word 'professional' doesn't hold any magic or mystique. The people who really change the world are usually amateurs

The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

The world is becoming more affluent. We are generating more and more money - so more spending will go on. In the west, we're opening our purses and moths are flying out - but we've got to remember that, in other markets, this is not an issue.

The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'.

They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.

They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top.

They keep the old business. We keep the ongoing business.

They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business.

They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year.. equivalent to seven years in a regular person's life. In other words, it's evolving fast and faster.

They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Things that annoy me end up fuelling my ideas.

Think before you act: it's not your money.

Think for yourself. Unplug yourself from follow-the-follower groupthink, and virtually ignore what everyone else in your industry is saying (except the ones everyone agrees is crazy). Do your own research, draw your own conclusions, set your own course, and stick to your guns. When you're just starting out, people will tell you you're wrong. After you've blown past them, they'll tell you you're crazy. A few years after that, they'll (privately) ask you to mentor them.

Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.

Thirty years ago, about 80% of a company's assets resided in its plant and equipment, with 20% in the knowledge of its people. Today, the reverse is true. The knowledge of our staff is our principal asset

This caste system had grown by the practice of the son always following the business of the father.

This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better.

This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

This may seem simple, but you need to give customers what they want, not what you think they want. And, if you do this, people will keep coming back.

This is not the kind of country where you would feel comfortable if you were opposed to democracy, parliamentary law, independent courts and so I would say to people who don't feel comfortable with those values there might be other countries where they'd feel more comfortable with their own values or beliefs.

This market right now is moving on nothing more than emotions. Guess what? It almost always moves on emotions.

This morning did you wake up to an alarm clock or an opportunity clock?

This is the welfare generation, and that is incredibly sad. That will be judged in history as being far worse, I believe, than the stolen generation, because we are literally losing thousands and thousands of our indigenous brothers and sisters to the effects of welfare – drugs, gunja, low morale, alcoholism. I see it everyday and it can stop. The solution is education, training and a guaranteed opportunity.

This would be a great world to dance in if we didn’t have to pay the fiddler.

This use of advertising - to add a subjective value to the product - becomes increasingly important as the trends in our technology lead to competing products becoming more and more the same.

Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

Those revolutions are not strictly incessant; they occur in discrete rushes which are separated from each other by spans of comparative quiet. The process as a whole works incessantly however, in the sense that there always is either revolution or absorption of the results of revolution, both together forming what are known as business cycles.

Those who believe that we have reached the limit of business progress and employment opportunity in this country are like the farmer who had two windmills and pulled one down because he was afraid there was not enough wind for both.

Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are preparing to use it; when they do not require it, they allow it to remain unbent, for otherwise it would remain unserviceable when the time for using it arrived. So it is with man. If he were to devote himself unceasingly to a dull round of business, without breaking the monotony by cheerful amusements, he would fall imperceptibly into idiocy, or be struck by paralysis

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life brings us nothing better than swollen fortunes for the few and the triumph in both politics and business of a sordid and selfish materialism.

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.

Those who manage their way into a crisis are not necessarily the right people to manage their way out of a crisis

Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of what we were before, a setting aside of the old self in favor of a more complex one.

Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire.

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even if you have nothing else.

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

To be a success in business, be daring, be first, be different.