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

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.

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

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

"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.

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 never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.

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

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.

Happiness does not require an expanding economy

Happiness is the secret ingredient for successful businesses. If you have a happy company it will be invincible.

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.

Hard work will always bring opportunities

Hard work does not go unnoticed, and someday the rewards will follow.

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

Haste in every business brings failures.

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

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.

Having colleagues nearby, whether at the beach or in a crypt, means the ideas are always flowing

Have a vision. Be demanding.

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

He [Charles II] was utterly without ambition. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.

He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.

Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!

Having taught economics courses at private vocational schools and universities, I have always had a problem with GNP as a yardstick of prosperity. GNP is improved by increases in questionable activities such as consumption of cigarettes and the production of weapons. Moreover, a substantial increase in car accidents will favorably affect GNP because more funerals, hospital visits, car repairs, and new car purchases will result.

Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.

He's the one guy I can credit for making me think about marriage in a whole new light, because every guy I've had in my life has either lied or cheated me financially or business-wise, or taken advantaged of me.

He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.

He that attends to his interior self, That has a heart, and keeps it; has a mind That hungers, and supplies it; and who seeks A social, not a dissipated life, Has business.

High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out. And that's wrong.

He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.

He without benefit of scruples - His fun and money soon quadruples.

Hollywood has its Oscars. Television has its Emmys. Broadway has its Tonys. And advertising has its Clios. And its Andys, Addys, Effies and Obies. And 117 other assorted awards. And those are just the big ones.

Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture.

Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer.

Hire character. Train skill.

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.

Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone.

How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group.

Honor is better than honors.

How do you decisions change if retirement is not an option?

However, a good life consists of more than simply the totality of enjoyable experiences. It must also have a meaningful pattern, a trajectory of growth that results in the development of increasing emotional, cognitive, and social complexity.

However hard we try to bring in the new; it comes into being only in the midst of clumsy deals.

...how engaged are your employees right now? You may consider such a question impossible to answer, but the truth is, you need to know this if you want a more profitable, ethical organization, as everyone must share the same values to make the changes genuine

However, music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

How fast you are moving is more important than where you are.