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Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

Fella in business got to lie an' cheat, but he calls it somepin else. That's what's important. You go steal that tire an' you're a thief, but he tried to steal your four dollars for a busted tire. They call that sound business.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Few great men would have got past personnel.

Few great men could pass personnel.

Few people do business well, who do nothing else.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Fifteen Minutes of Notoriety Beats the Best Advertising Money Can Buy

Fifteen years ago, if you said business will help save the environment people would have laughed at you. Today, I believe that is a serious proposition.

Finance that only talks to itself & deals with each other becomes socially useless

Financial struggle is often the direct result of people working all their lives for someone else.

Find a business mentor. Connect with others who are successful in other lines of business. Bounce ideas off them, pick their brains. Maybe they can re-write a proposal for you.

Financial hydrogen bombs built on personal computers by 26-year-olds with MBAs.

Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really rough the authorities will step in.

Firms need to ensure that their ability to provide effective customer service keeps pace with their growth. If you're marketing your firm to new customers, you better be able to provide them service when they do business with you.

Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

Focus on building the best possible business. If you are great, people will notice and opportunities will appear.

Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.

Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town.

For a hot-shot CEO taking over a troubled company, mass firings are the ultimate quick fix, the accounting equivalent of crack: cheap, easy to score, instantly gratifying, and highly addictive.

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.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility.

For as long as I can remember the slogan has been ... the federal government ought to behave more like families, because families balance their budgets. It turns out that families looked around and said, "You know what? Let's behave more like the government!

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

For far too long, the people of Northern Ireland have been denied an equal voice and equal representation in government. It is time for the Assembly and Executive to be up and running and the people's business to be addressed.

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

For every mountain there is another one. The big question is if you reach the top of the mountain, what then? What do you do then? I suppose you die.

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

Forget about yourncompetitors, just focus on your customers.

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.

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.

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 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 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 merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

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

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 brings in some boats that are not steered.

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

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

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

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.