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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.

The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything

The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist, and a bad one at that, since he has given no thought to his position.

The self-anointed media elite among us believe, somewhat self-servingly, that not only the act, or process of making a profit is positively sinister, but also that the very desire to do so is.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

The sign brings customers.

The secret of success in business is creativity.

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

The small town is passing. It was the incubator that hatched all our big men, and that's why we haven't got as many big men today as we used to have. Take every small-town-raised leader out of business and you would have nobody left running it but vice-presidents.

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

The single most important thing you can do in business is to be yourself.

The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these same dangers, you attack each problem as it appears, unafraid.

The speed at which a business success is recognized, furthermore, is not that important as long as the company's intrinsic value is increasing at a satisfactory rate. In fact, delayed recognition can be an advantage: It may give us the chance to buy more of a good thing at a bargain price.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

The status quo is a product of our culture or our culture is a product of the status quo - I'm sure which is the effect and which is the product - there is probably a feedback loop there that is mutually reinforcing. But we have a culture that says "Hey, look around. This place called Earth was created for you and you can do anything you want with it.

The start of the New Year is a perfect time to start a stop doing list and to make this the cornerstone of your New Year resolutions, be it for your company, your family or yourself. It also is a perfect time to clarify your three circles, mirroring at a personal level the three questions... 1) What are you deeply passionate about? 2) What are you are genetically encoded for - what activities do you feel just "made to do"? 3) What makes economic sense - what can you make a living at?

The status quo is a very powerful opiate and when you have a system that seems to be working and producing profits by the conventional way of accounting for profits. It's very hard to make yourself change. But we all know that change is an inevitable part of business. Once you have ridden a wave just so far, you have to get another wave. We all know that. For us, becoming restorative has been that new wave and we have been riding it for 13 years now. It's been incredibly good for business.

The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring.

The strategy we've adopted precludes our following standard diversification dogma. Many pundits would therefore say the strategy must be riskier than that employed by more conventional investors. We disagree. We believe that a policy of portfolio concentration may well decrease risk if it raises, as it should, both the intensity with which an investor thinks about a business and the comfort-level he must feel with its economic characteristics before buying into it.

The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him.

The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

The surprise of the fight on the long day, of the experiments with the shorter one, has been not only that the business could stand it, but that the business thrived under it as surely as the man did. It is but another of the proofs which are heaping up in American industry to-day that whatever is good for men and women - contributes to their health, happiness, development - is good for business.

The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

The theory of the determination of wages in a free market is simply a special case of the general theory of value. Wages are the price of labour.

The success and ultimately the survival of every business, large or small, depends in the last analysis on its ability to develop people. This ability is not measured by any of our conventional yardsticks of economic success; yet, is the final measurement.

... thething I am proudest of in my whole business life is that I do not take, that I never took in all my life, and never, never! will take, one single penny more than 6% on any loan or any contract.

The thing about being an actor is that you're in the business of not growing up

The time has come when advertising has in some hands reached the status of a science.

The top two ways to destroy success are greed and impatience

The success of any user generated content-related project should be judged in the long term. Try not to use it as a one-off campaign activation idea. Think of it instead as the beginning or continuation of an ongoing dialogue with your consumers.

The time you want the map... is before you enter the woods

The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

The traditional model we all grew up with is obsolete.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

The things that get rewarded, get done

The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.

The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.

The trade-unionist has the same limitation imposed upon him as the capitalist. He cannot advance his interests at the expense of society.

The trouble with you and me my friend, is the trouble with this nation, too many blessings, too little Appreciation.

The trouble with much of the advice business is getting today about the need to be more vigorously creative is, essentially, that its advocates have generally failed to distinguish between the relatively easy process of being creative in the abstract and the infinitely more difficult process of being innovationist in the concrete.

The trouble with not being into social networking is that people think you're anti-social when you're only anti-networking.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

The truth is women in the workplace don't have to fight nearly as hard for opportunities, or to dispel stereotypes, as they did before.

The Treasury's plan has little for those outside of the financial industry. It is aimed at rescuing the same financial institutions that created this crisis with the sloppy underwriting and reckless disregard for the risk they were creating, taking or passing on to others.