Business Quotes
“It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you're selling, and often pure, dumb luck.”
“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