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“Money-getters are the benefactors of our race. To them ... are we indebted for our institutions of learning, and of art, our academies, colleges and churches.”

Art Church Business Race College Institutions Academy Indebted Benefactors

Book:Art of Money Getting

Source: Art of Money Getting

“If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.”

Ifs Government Would Be Business Democracy Consumers Disturbing

Author:Kin Hubbard

“Businessmen are notable for a peculiarly stalwart character, which enables them to enjoy without loss of self-reliance the benefits of tariffs, franchises, and even outright government subsidies.”

Self Character Government Enjoy Loss Business Benefits Businessman Self Reliance Reliance Notable Subsidies Tariffs Stalwart

Book:the Uses of the Past

Source: the Uses of the Past

“A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.”

Needs Home Three Money Business Office Train Businessman Umbrella

Author:Paul Dickson

“As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel.”

People Ideas Remember Business Advertising

Author:Peter Drucker

“Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.”

People Thinking Inspirational Mind Believe Motivational Remember Success Belief Can Do Work Business Education Attitude Learning Successful Influence Achieve Inspire Succeed Limits Ambition Empowerment Entrepreneur Mindset Believe In Yourself Being Successful Women Empowerment Successful People Business Success Success In Life Empowering Women Road To Success Trust Yourself Remember You Remembers You Successful Business Believe You Can Motivational Business Empowered Women Motivational Success Succes Successful Women Successful Life Successful Entrepreneurs Inspirational Strong Women Achieving Success Business World Business Owners Achiever Motivational Work Keep Believing Achieved Success Career Success Strong Female Starting A Business Will To Succeed Small Business Owners Limiting Beliefs Career Women Successful Career Motivational Achievement Career Motivation Influential People You Can't Change People Time Limit Successful Work Positive Work Careers And Life Monday Motivation Daily Business Limiting Yourself Positive Success Inspirational Believe In Yourself Launching A Business

Author:Mary Kay Ash

“Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.”

People Feels Important Motivational Funny Forget Business Words Of Wisdom Messages Praise Appreciation Invisible Necks Never Forget Funny Inspirational Hanging Around Small Business Owners

Author:Mary Kay Ash

“Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”

“People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.”

Source: Mary Kay, You Can Have it All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur

“Two rules: 1. Preserve the principal 2. When in doubt, see Rule #1.”

Two Business Doubt Preserves Principal When In Doubt

Author:Warren Buffett

“Don't cheat yourself out of music. Music is one thing. The music business is another thing. Save enough of yourself to keep living anyway. Save enough joy in your heart to enjoy it. Let your reward be in the doing of it.”

Heart Enough Joy Enjoy Business Music One Thing Musician Music Is Rewards Cheating Cheat Music Business Music Industry Save Yourself Cheating Yourself

Author:Bill Withers

“The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.”

Beautiful Language Money Business Guilty English Language Benign Not Guilty Beautiful Words Sex And Death Room Service Misery And Suffering

Author:Maxim Gorky

“The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'.”

Wells Done Business Mistake Worst Boss Well Done

Author:John Ashcroft

“Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen. [Lat., Quod medicorum est Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.]”

Business Tools Handle Physicians Workmen

Author:Horace

“All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]”

Firsts Business Enterprise Impetus Inconsiderate Impetuous

Author:Tacitus

“Who wishes to give himself an abundance of business let him equip these two things, a ship and a woman. For no two things involve more business, if you have begun to fit them out. Nor are these two things ever sufficiently adorned, nor is any excess of adornment enough for them.”

Ifs Giving Two Enough Wish Business Fit Ships Two Things Abundance Plus Excess Forte Adornment Duos Vim

Author:Plautus

“There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it. [Non enim potest quaestus consistere, si eum sumptus superat.]”

Ifs Business Profit Exceed

Author:Plautus

“Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.”

Self Business Talent Degrees Capacity Originals Business Success Commonplace Uncommon Owing

Book:Liber Amoris and Related Writings

Source: Liber Amoris and Related Writings

“Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.”

Bigs Politics Business Monsters Twins Big Business

Author:Anais Nin

“It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.”

Knows Waiting Business Know How Pieces Skills Luck Guides Good Luck Luck And Skill

Book:The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even if you have nothing else.”

Inspirational Reality Business Ease Leisure Leisure Time

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“Briefcases, like CEOs, should never look new and unused.”

Should Looks Business Ceo Briefcases

Author:Lois Wyse

“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.”

People Moving Business Comfortable Management Ladders Hiring Better Than You Replacements Dummy

Book:The Six-Figure Woman and How to Be One

Source: The Six-Figure Woman and How to Be One

“If you can't add to the discussion, don't subtract by talking.”

Ifs Business Talking Add Discussion

Book:The Six-Figure Woman and How to Be One

Source: The Six-Figure Woman and How to Be One

“The sign brings customers.”

Business Customers

Book:La Fontaine's Fables: Now First Translated from the French...

Source: La Fontaine's Fables: Now First Translated from the French...

“Nostalgia is also a trait of the organizations that I call lodges - everything from corporate cultures to religious sects. Their bonding power often exceeds loyalty to family or country because they create intimacy through shared ideals and beliefs, ceremonies, stories, and legends, and depend on it for their survival. The message is clear: Don't question what we're doing. Just appreciate how long we've been doing it.”

Source: Thinking In The Future Tense

“Intuition is a combination of insight and imagination that was once attributed to spiritual communication. Mathematicians call it 'fuzzy logic,' drawing conclusions from vague or subjective input. The mind becomes aware without the direct intervention of reasoning. Once you can imagine something you can begin the process of creating it. Executives use intuition to make many product, investment, and hiring decisions, even if they deny it. Success in business may depend on an accurate gut.”

Source: Thinking In The Future Tense

“In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship.”

Business Efficiency Courtesy

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Business will be either better or worse.”

Business

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“Despatch is the soul of business.”

Soul Business

Author:Bill Vaughan

“There can be no freedom in the large sense of the word, no harmonious development, so long as mercenary and commercial considerations play an important part in the determination of personal conduct.”

Long Important Play Business Development Determination Consideration Harmonious Mercenary

Book:Emma Goldman

Source: Emma Goldman

“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.”

Mind Heart Self Social Business Hunger Interiors Supplies

Book:The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings

Source: The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings

“The potter is at enmity with the potter.”

Business Potters Enmity

Author:Hesiod

“A risk-taking environment starts at the top of a corporation. If the CEO doesn't have this spirit, chances are you won't find it anywhere else in the organization.”

Ifs Spirit Leadership Chance Business Environment Risk Organization Corporations Ceo Chances Are Risk-taking

Book:The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur

Source: The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur

“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”

“I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work.”

People Want Home Bits Business Style Commitment British Stores More Money Retailers

Author:Philip Green

“Ill ware is never cheape. [Ill ware is never cheap.]”

Business Ill

Author:George Herbert

“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.”

Easy Business Company Mass Shots Ultimate Hot Score Cracks Ceo Unemployment Accounting Firing Quick Fixes Hot Shots

Book:Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America

Source: Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America

“corporate America corrupted the watchdogs that were supposed to be guarding the public interest by feeding them under the table.”

Government America Politics Interest Business Tables Supposed To Be Corporate Feeding Public Interest Guarding Corporate America

Book:Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America

Source: Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America

“in show business there's not much point in asking yourself if someone really likes you or if he just thinks you can be useful to him, because there's no difference.”

Ifs Thinking Shows Differences Business Asking Likes Show Business

Author:Pauline Kael

“It was left for the present age to endow Covetousness with glamour on a big scale, and to give it a title which it could carry like a flag. It occurred to somebody to call it Enterprise. From the moment of that happy inspiration, Covetousness has gone forward and never looked back.”

Giving Moments Bigs Inspiration Age Left Business Gone Greed Scales Titles Enterprise Flags Glamour Covetousness

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably demand the enlargement of the political power.”

Political Politics Business Modern Demand Limits Abuse Sole Remedy Political Power Reformers Enlargement

Book:The God of the Machine

Source: The God of the Machine

“You've got to spend a little money to make a little money.”

Littles Business Little Money

Author:Elizabeth Arden

“while the executive should give every possible value to the information of the specialist, no executive should abdicate thinking on any subject because of the expert. The expert's information or opinion should not be allowed automatically to become a decision. On the other hand, full recognition should be given to the part the expert plays in decision making.”

Thinking Giving Should Play Hands Values Given Decision Business Opinion Subjects Information Recognition Experts Decision Making Executives Specialists

Book:Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett

Source: Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett

“if you wish to train yourself for higher executive positions, the first thing for you to decide is what you are training for. Ability to dominate or manipulate others? That ought to be easy enough, since most of the magazines advertise sure ways of developing something they call 'personality.' But I am convinced that the first essential of business success is the capacity for organized thinking.”

Source: Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett

“There is too great a tendency (perhaps encouraged by popular journalism) to deal with the dramatic moments, forgetting that these are not always the most significant moments. ... To find the significant rather than the dramatic features of industrial controversy, of a disagreement in regard to policy on board of directors or between managers, is essential to integrative business policies.”

Source: Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s

“Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.”

Success Money Business Self Improvement Abuse Finance Vulnerable Fraud Business Success Hype Borrowers

Author:Alan Greenspan

“To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.”

Success Business Education Communication Succeed Skills Self Improvement Importance Foundation Finance Communication Skills Business Success Literacy Basics Solid Foundation Verbal Communication

Author:Alan Greenspan

“I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.”

Success Left Business Knowledge New York Band Limits Self Improvement University Average Business Success Music Business

Author:Alan Greenspan

“I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.”

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