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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Good design is good business.

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 economics is good politics.

Good environmentalism is good economics

Good marketers measure.

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

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

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

Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax bill comes, your first thought will be to choke on how big a check you have to write.

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

Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Governments can can send inspectors to companies. Governments can put legal requirements in place to disclose information that consumers and workers and other interested people need. Non-governmental organizations don't have that legal power and to me, that's what imposes substantial limitiations on how far we can go with trying to keep corporations accountable though non-governmental measures.

Government caters to those screaming the loudest, regardless of what they're screaming about. In business, it's exactly the opposite! You invest more in the most successful departments, and less in those that aren't performing.

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

Government barriers on Business For example, the Endangered Species Act prevents 'disturbing the habitat' of the spotted owl. That has restricted 4.2 million acres of forest from development, leading to the loss of 30,000 lumber-related jobs and the annual loss of 1.1 billion board feet of lumber. This has driven up the cost of houses by at least $4,000 each. In addition, regulators ordered a Kansas City bank to install a Braille keypad on its drive-through automatic teller machine, presumably to aid any blind drivers. The list goes on and on.

Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.

Grateful return for happiness conferred is not the method of exchange in a partnership. The comfort a man takes with his wife is not in the nature of a business partnership, nor are her frugality and industry.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.

Greed is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed will save the U.S.A.!

Greenhouse gas emissions and global warming are among humanity's most pressing concerns. Societal expectations on climate change are real, and our industry is expected to take a leadership role.

"Growth!" is not a Hedgehog Concept. Rather, if you have the right Hedgehog Concept and make decisions relentlessly consistent with it, you will create such momentum that your main problem will not be how to grow, but how not to grow too fast.

Growth isn't central at all, because I'm trying to run this company as if it's going to be here a hundred years from now. And if you take where we are today and add 15% growth, like public companies need to have for their stock to stay up in value, I'd be a multi-trillion-dollar company in 40 years. Which is impossible, of course.

Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo.

Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.

Half a century ago, the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote that happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.