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My profession brought me in contact with various minds. Earnest, serious discussion on the condition of woman enlivened my business room; failures of banks, no dividends from railroads, defalcations of all kinds, public and private, widows and orphans and unmarried women beggared by the dishonesty, or the mismanagement of men, were fruitful sources of conversation; confidence in man as a protector was evidently losing ground, and women were beginning to see that they must protect themselves.

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

My surroundings have always been conducive to achieving what you want and believing in self 100 per cent; not being afraid to stand up and voice your opinion.

My take on the whole dot-com bubble was that a lot of people who wanted to make a lot of money got too excited and hyped up the commercial aspects of the Internet prematurely. I think the vision of the Internet as a democratizing medium - as everyone's printing press - is real. We got distracted from that by the mass hallucinations of the bubble.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

Natural capitalism is not about making sudden changes, uprooting institutions, or fomenting upheaval for a new social order. Natural capitalism is about making small, critical choices that can tip economic and social factors in positive ways.

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.

Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign.

Network selectively. Nothing says "business newbie" like shotgun networking. "You never know when someone might say yes" is marketing for dummies. Take the time to build a profile of your ideal customers, and target your networking activities to reach them. Speak to those who are already predisposed to want what you offer. Almost any profile is better than "anyone with a pulse.

Networking is marketing. Marketing yourself, marketing your uniqueness, marketing what you stand for.

Never before has information been so important, to governments and businesses alike. And please don't imagine that some of you gathered here today may be less concerned than others. Globalization means that the "butterfly effect" is everywhere at work. The mistakes of a stockbroker in Singapore or the collapse of the Baht in Bangkok, the decisions of a Finnish industrial concern, or what the Governor of Minas Gerais in Brazil decides to do about his State's debt, have had consequences for the world as a whole.

Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.

Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.

Never follow your dreams. Follow your effort. It's not about what you can dream of. That's easy. It's about whether or not it's important enough to you to do the work to be ready to be successful in that business.

Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Never invest in a business you can't understand

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market

Never mistake activity for achievement.

Never quit. Never give up.

Never schedule a board meeting on Wednesday because it kills two weekends.

Never underestimate your own ignorance.

Never underestimate the importance of self-belief to transform your own organization, to reassure nervous clients, and to change the future of our business.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.

. . . Newton was an unquestioning believer in an all-wise creator of the universe, and in his own inability - like the boy on the seashore - to fathom the entire ocean in all its depths. He therefore believed that there were not only many things in heaven beyond his philosophy, but plenty on earth as well, and he made it his business to understand for himself what the majority of intelligent men of his time accepted without dispute (to them it was as natural as common sense) - the traditional account of the creation.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

Nike is a marketing-oriented company, and the product is our most important marketing tool.

Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.

Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

Nobody wants to open a business near a Superfund site and risk being sued

Nobody who bought a drill actually wanted a drill. They wanted a hole. Therefore, if you want to sell drills, you should advertise information about making holes – NOT information about drills!

No business can be made easier to do than excuses are to make.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone.

Nobody beats the market, they say. Except for those of those of us who do.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit

No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

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.

No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me.

No, I don't think a 68-year-old copywriter . . . can write with the kids. That he's as creative. That he's as fresh. But he may be a better surgeon. His ad may not be quite as fresh and glowing as the Madison Ave. fraternity would like to see it be, and yet he might write an ad that will produce five times the sales. And that's the name of the game, isn't it?

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.