Business Quotes
“Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.”
“The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.”
-- Harold S. Geneen
“It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.”
-- Dolley Madison
“We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.”
-- Hubert H. Humphrey
“I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.”
-- Jack Kilby
“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”
-- Thomas Carlyle