Business Quotes
“The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace.”
“The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.”
-- Honore de Balzac
“'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.”
-- Richard Chamberlain
“It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.”
-- Isaac Asimov
“An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”
-- Jack Welch
“Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.”
-- Peter Drucker
“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.”
-- Thomas Carlyle
“People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.”
-- Tori Amos