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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Good marketers measure.

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.

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.

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.

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

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.