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For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.

For no matter what we achieve, if we don't spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect, we cannot possibly have a great life. But if we spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect - people we really enjoy being on the bus with and who will never disappoint us - then we will almost certainly have a great life, no matter where the bus goes. The people we interviewed from the good-to-great companies clearly loved what they did, largely because they loved who they did it with.

Formula for success: Underpromise and overachieve.

For people who live in the imagination, there is no lack of subjects. To seek for the exact moment at which inspiration comes is false. Imagination floods us with suggestions all the time, from all directions.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

For there is no business of life, no avocation whatever, which will not permit a man, who has an inclination, to give a little time every day to the studies of his youth.

For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.

For twenty years it had been generally known that an insidious Lobby was maintained in Washington to influence legislation and executive action on behalf of vested interests. ... The lobby was a creature of darkness. It worked behind closed doors and whispered in corners. This ancient industry was one form of invisible government.

Forward thinking companies that adapt positively to the sustainable business agenda will be at the forefront of resource productivity, reducing waste and of environmental reporting. They and their management teams make things happen ahead of their competitors

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be beaten.

FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

Free your heart from hatred - forgive. Free your mind from worries - most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.

Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil, insecurity, and fear for the vast majority of the population. If the individual were no longer compelled to prove himself on the market, as a free economic subject, the disappearance of this freedom would be one of the greatest achievements of civilization.

Friends don't always make the best of business partners.

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.

From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness.

Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still am capable of forgetting a cardinal rule: The paper you own, in the end, will be intertwined with the fate of the 30-year bond.

Genuine art and business are the ultimate partnership toward catalyzing social evolution and well-being.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

Genius of AND. Embrace both extremes on a number of dimensions at the same time. Instead of choosing a OR B, figure out how to have A AND B-purpose AND profit, continuity AND change, freedom AND responsibility, etc.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.

Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British £5 and they will borrow £25 and spend it.

Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.

Give them quality. That's the best kind of advertising.

Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.

Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.

God didn't have time to make a nobody, only a somebody.I believe that each of us has God-given talents within us waiting to be brought to fruition.

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

Good counselors lack no clients.

Good marketers measure.

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

Good brands reflect the histories of the time and the group of people that made them. They can not be copied. They can not be recycled.

Good economics is good politics.

Good environmentalism is good economics

Good journalism is good business practice; good business supports great journalism.

Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.

Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.