Business Quotes
“I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal,' the 'New York Times,' constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.”
“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