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A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

A hotel is a place that keeps the manufacturers of 25-watt bulbs in business.

Aim low, reach your goals, and avoid disappointment.

Alcohol and drug addiction are problems, and we should use outside agencies that know the business. They do business all over the country. Why don't we contract them to do it? See, we should be in certain businesses.

A leader should never compare his technical skills with his employee's.

A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity...one must first embark on the formidable journey of self-discovery in order to create a vision with authentic soul.

A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

A leader should have higher endurance and ability to accept and embrace failure.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.

All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

All glory comes from daring to begin.

All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

All good management is the expression of one great idea

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.

All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.

All one needs is a computer, a network connection, and a bright spark of initiative and creativity to join the economy.

All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready to receive it.

All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and I think that artistically, I really didn't understand the commercial side of the film business, so I went back to a purely artistic setting.

All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music, or anything else that we value.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

All the things I love is what my business is all about.

Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.

All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.

All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims.

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

All too much of the wage structure has been based on the time workers put in, rather than upon the product put out. The consumer dollar has no interest in how much time it buys-only in the character and quality of the product itself.

All we can thus far say about the duration of the units of [the business cycle] and each of [its] two phases is that it will depend on the nature of the particular innovations that carry a cycle,... and the financial conditions and habits prevailing in the business community in each case.

Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if we lived on an infinite planet, but there's this small, niggling, inconvenient fact that the planet is, in fact, finite, and that, unlike economic theory, it is governed by physical and biological reality

A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

although the typist has disappeared, her work has not: now you do it yourself. ... Since most companies have reduced the managerial ranks, there are fewer and fewer bosses, so you become a manger, his boss, and his secretary all rolled into one.

A lot of times in this business, we are taking advantage of hot times in our career to do a lot of TV and a lot of radio and that sort of thing, and George is able to be so humble that he can get away with not doing those things.

Always hire people who are better than you. Hiring dummies is shortsighted. You can't move up the ladder until everyone is comfortable with your replacement.

Always deliver more than expected.

Always do what you say you are going to do. It is the glue and fiber that binds successful relationships.

Always let your employees come to work with a smile.

Always start at the end before you begin. Professional investors always have an exit strategy before they invest. Knowing your exit strategy is an important investment fundamental.

Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.