Bureaucracy Quotes - Facts - Mary Follett

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“Administrative purpose usually outruns the facts. Indeed the administrative official's ardor for facts usually begins when he wants to change the facts!”Mary Parker Follett (1868 – 1933) U.S. management theorist and author

Quotes - Memorandum - Dean Acheson

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“A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.”Dean Acheson (1893 – 1971) U.S. statesman

Work Quotations - Quotes - William Faulkner

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“One of the saddest things is that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat ... nor make love for eight hours.” [read business fable]William Faulkner (1897 – 1962) U.S. winner of the Nobel Prize in literature

Retirement Quotes - Work Quote - Saul Bellow

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“Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemetries.”Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005) U.S. winner of the Nobel Prize in literature

Luck Quotes - Success - Jean Cocteau

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“We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?”Jean Cocteau (1889 – 1963) French poet, novelist, and filmmaker

Famous Quote - Fear Quote - Eleanor Roosevelt

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“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 – 1962) U.S. human rights activist, author, and first lady

Action Quote - CEO Quotes - Warren Buffet

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“One's objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out, and get it over ... your problem won't improve with age.” [read business fable]Warren Buffett (b. 1930) U.S. C.E.O. of Berkshire Hathaway

Famous Authors - Quotes - Ernest Hemingway

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“Never confuse movement with action.”Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961) U.S. winner of the Nobel Prize in literature

Famous Quotes - Time - Will Rogers

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“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.” [read business-fable]Will Rogers (1879 – 1935) U.S. comedian, humorist, and actor

Quotes - Burn Bridges - Sigourney Weaver

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“Never burn bridges. Today's junior prick, tomorrow's senior partner.”Sigourney Weaver (b. 1949) U.S. actress

Quotes - Company Structure - Michael Dell

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“If you limit a company by its structure or by the people in the company, you will, by definition, limit the full potential of that business. It sounds basic, but a lot of companies don't follow the idea that the structure should be last and not first.”Michael Dell (b. 1965) U.S. chairman and founder of Dell Computer Corporation

Business Leadership Quotes - Eckhard Pfeiffer

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“You have a responsibility to shape the vision of a company, and you know whatever process you choose will determine ultimately the well-being of the organization.”Eckhard Pfeiffer (b. 1941) German C.E.O. of Compaq

Success Quotations - Soichiro Honda

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“To me success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection. In fact, success represents 1 per cent of your work which results from the 99 per cent that is called failure.” [read business fable]Soichiro Honda (1906 – 91) Japanese founder of Honda Motor

Winning Quotes - Success Quote - Masaru Ibuka

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“The key to success for Sony and to everything in business is never to follow the others.”Masaru Ibuka (1908 – 97) Japanese co-founder of Sony Corporation

Executives - Quotes - Clean desk - Harold Geneen

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“You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps ... If the president of a company has a clean desk ... then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.”Harold S. Geneen (1910 – 97) U.S. president and C.E.O. of ITT

CEO Quotes - Clean Desk - Harold Geneen

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“It is practically impossible for a top management man, or even middle management, to be doing the degree and level of work that he should be doing and, at the same time, have a clean desk.”Harold S. Geneen (1910 – 97) U.S. president and C.E.O. of ITT

Quotes - Organizational Structure - Harold Geneen

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“Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationships of the men and women in the organization.”Harold S. Geneen (1910 – 97) U.S. president and C.E.O. of ITT

Opportunity Quotes - Business - Armand Hammer

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“Seize opportunity by the forelock and see where it leads you.”Armand Hammer (1898 – 1990) U.S. founder and C.E.O. of Occidental Petroleum

Competition Quotes - Monopoly - Rupert Murdoch

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“Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it.”Rupert Murdoch (b. 1931) U.S. C.E.O. of News Corporation

Business Negotiation Quotes - Bernie Ecclestone

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“Some of them think they have me by the balls, but their hands aren't big enough.”Bernie Ecclestone (b. 1930) British president and C.E.O. of Formula One Management

Motivation Quotes - Women - Bridget Macaskill

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“Women are naturally good motivators, good at juggling different projects and issues at the same time, and more cooperative rather than aggressive and confrontational.”Bridget A. Macaskill (b. 1949) British president and C.E.O. of Oppenheimer Funds

Success Quotes - Mistakes - Kemmons Wilson

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“My own success was attended by quite a few failures along the way. But I refused to make the biggest mistake of all: worrying too much about making mistakes.”Kemmons Wilson (1913 – 2003) U.S. founder of Holiday Inn hotels

Quotations - Mistakes Quotes - Edwin Land

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“A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.”Edwin Land (1909 – 91) U.S. inventor and founder of Polaroid Corporation

Media Quotes - Business Quote - Rupert Murdoch

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“I don't give a damn what the media critics say. It's what your readers say. If you haven't got any readers, you're only talking to yourself.”Rupert Murdoch (b. 1931) U.S. C.E.O. of News Corporation

Corporate Culture Quotes - Anita Roddick

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“The kind of brain-dead, gum chewing assistant you find in so many shops drives me wild. I want everyone who works for me to feel the same excitement that I feel.”Anita Roddick (b. 1942) British founder of The Body Shop

Corporate Culture Quote - Tie - Paul Walsh

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“We need a can-do, vibrant, innovation-driven culture. Not wearing a tie is just a snippet of that.”Paul Walsh (b. 1955) British C.E.O. of Diageo

Quotes - Apple Computer - John Sculley

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“APPLE has to be more pragmatic and less religious. And the only one who can really do that is the person who created the religion in the first place.”John Sculley (b. 1939) U.S. president of PepsiCo and C.E.O. of Apple Computer

CEO Quotes - Leadership - Ingvar Kamprad

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“My answer is to stay close to ordinary people because at heart I am one.” [read business-fable]Ingvar Kamprad (b. 1926) Swedish founder of IKEA

Quotes - Leading by Example - Ingvar Kamprad

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“How the hell can I ask people who work for me to travel cheaply if I am traveling in luxury.”Ingvar Kamprad (b. 1926) Swedish founder of IKEA

Customer Quotes - CEO Quotes - Liisa Joronen

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“If you're not happy with yourself, how can you make the customer happy?”Liisa Joronen (b. 1944) Finnish C.E.O. of SOL

Quotes - Small Companies Quote - Lou Gerstner

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“There is a misconception that small is always more beautiful than big.”Lou Gerstner (b. 1942) U.S. chairman and C.E.O. of IBM

Woman Quotes - CEO Quotes - Carly Fiorina

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“Anytime you have a fiercely-competitive, change-oriented growth business where results count and merit matters, women will rise to the top.”Carly Fiorina (b. 1954) U.S. chairperson and C.E.O. of Hewlett-Packard

Business Quotes - IBM Quote - Bill Campbell

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“IBM is like the Stepford Wives. It takes the best people from the best universities and colleges and then snips out some part of the brain so that they become mindless clones.”Bill Campbell (b. 1940) U.S. C.E.O. of Intuit Corporation

Business - Investment Quotes - Warren Buffett

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“Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style.”Warren Buffett (b. 1930) U.S. C.E.O. of Berkshire Hathaway

Business Quotes - Mergers Quotes - Peter Bonfield

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“The big danger in mega-mergers is that they are seen as a mating of dinosaurs.”Peter Bonfield (b. 1944) British C.E.O. of British Telecom

CEO Quotes - Corporate Culture - Bill Gates

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“The CEO's role in raising a company's corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration.”Bill Gates (b. 1955) U.S. co-founder and chairman of Microsoft

Life Quotes - Death - Isaac Asimov

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“Life is a journey, but don't worry, you'll find a parking spot at the end.”Isaac Asimov (1920 – 92) U.S. science fiction novelist and critic

Law Quote - Ethics Quote - Immanuel Kant

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“In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.”Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) German philosopher

Funny Quotes - Drinking - Henny Youngman

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“When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.”Henny Youngman (1906 – 98) U.S. violinist and comedian

Funny Quote - Friends - Henny Youngman

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“I'd like to introduce you to some friends of mine. I want to break off with them.”Henny Youngman (1906 – 98) U.S. violinist and comedian

Insult Quotes - Funny Quotes - Henny Youngman

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“You're the kind of person I would like to have over when I have the measles.”Henny Youngman (1906 – 98) U.S. violinist and comedian

Quotes - Funny Sarcastic - Henny Youngman

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“You have a ready wit. Let me know when it's ready.”Henny Youngman (1906 – 98) U.S. violinist and comedian

Humor Quotations - Sarcasm - Henny Youngman

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“I think the world of you...and you know what condition the world is in today.”Henny Youngman (1906 – 98) U.S. violinist and comedian

Funny Sarcastic Quotes - Henny Youngman

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“The more I think of you the less I think of you.”Henny Youngman (1906 – 98) U.S. violinist and comedian

Wits - Funny Quotes - Henny Youngman

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“Look, I'm not going to engage in a battle of wits with you. I never attack anyone who is unarmed.”Henny Youngman (1906 – 98) U.S. violinist and comedian

Funny - Humor Quotes - Henny Youngman

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“If there's ever a price on your head, take it.”Henny Youngman (1906 – 98) U.S. violinist and comedian

Humor - Quotes - Happiness - Henny Youngman

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“Some people bring happiness wherever they go. You bring happiness whenever you go.”Henny Youngman (1906 – 98) U.S. violinist and comedian

Funny Quotes - Beauty - Henny Youngman

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“My wife wanted her face lifted. They couldn't do that. But for $80, they lowered her body.”Henny Youngman (1906 – 98) U.S. violinist and comedian

Humor Quotes - Wife Quotes - Henny Youngman

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“I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.”Henny Youngman (1906 – 98) U.S. violinist and comedian

Wife Quotes - Diet - Funny - Henny Youngman

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“Now she's on a diet. Coconuts and bananas. She hasn't lost any weight. But she can climb a tree!”Henny Youngman (1906 – 98) U.S. violinist and comedian

Funny Quote - Wife - Henny Youngman

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“My wife is the sweetest, most tolerant, most beautiful woman in the world. This is a paid political announcement.”Henny Youngman (1906 – 98) U.S. violinist and comedian

Funny - Wife Quotes - Henny Youngman

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“My wife is a light eater. As soon as it's light, she starts eating.”Henny Youngman (1906 – 98) U.S. violinist and comedian

Wife Quotes - Humor Quotes - Henny Youngman

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“Take my wife—please!”Henny Youngman (1906 – 98) U.S. violinist and comedian

Time Quotes - Famous People - Benjamin Franklin

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“Remember that time is money.” [read business-fable]Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 90) U.S. scientist, politician, and diplomat

Time Management Quotes - Emile Littre

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“He who would make serious use of his life must always act as though he had a long time to live and must schedule his time as though he were about to die.” [read business-fable]Émile Littré (1801 – 81) French lexicographer and philosopher

Procrastination - Time Quotes - Horace

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“While we're talking, envious time is fleeing; seize the day, put no trust in the future.” [read business-fable]Horace (65 – 8 B.C.) Roman lyric poet

Time Quote - Meeting Quote - Nicholas Negroponte

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“I don't know the statistics, but I'm willing to guess that the executives of corporate America spend 70 to 80 percent of their time in meetings ... are 70 to 80 percent posturing and leveling ... The posturing is gratuitous, and the leveling is better done elsewhere. This alone would enhance U.S. productivity far more than any trade agreement.” [read business-fable]Nicholas Negroponte (b. 1943)

Quotes - Meeting Quotations - Eileen Shanahan

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“The length of a meeting rises with the number of people present and the productiveness of a meeting falls with the square of the number of people present.” [read business-fable]Eileen Shanahan (1924 – 2001) U.S. journalist and author

Funny Quotes - Committees - Will Rogers

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“Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.” [read business-fable]Will Rogers (1879 – 1935) U.S. comedian, humorist, and actor

Meeting Quotes - Funny Quote - Fred Allen

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“A conference is a gathering of important people who, singly, can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done.” [read business-fable]Fred Allen (1894 – 1956) U.S. comedian and satirist

Husband Quote - Bachelor Quote - Helen Rowland

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“Never trust a husband too far or a bachelor too near.”Helen Rowland (1875 – 1950) U.S. humorist and journalist

Man Quotes - Woman Quotes - Helen Rowland

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“To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.”Helen Rowland (1875 – 1950) U.S. humorist and journalist

Humorous Quotes - Funny - Helen Rowland

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“One man's folly is another man's wife.”Helen Rowland (1875 – 1950) U.S. humorist and journalist

Man Quotes - Funny Quotes - Helen Rowland

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“The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.”Helen Rowland (1875 – 1950) U.S. humorist and journalist

Relationship Quotes - Divorce - Helen Rowland

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“When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.”Helen Rowland (1875 – 1950) U.S. humorist and journalist

Competition Quotes - Experience - Lorraine Moller

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“I treat everything as a learning experience; then you become detached from the result and more interested in the experience itself.” [read business-fable]Lorraine Moller (b. 1955) New Zealand athlete

Stress Quotes - Rat Race - Lily Tomlin

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“The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.” [read business-fable]Lily Tomlin (b. 1939) U.S. actress and comedian

Quotes - Business Targets Quote - Charles Forte

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“The art of reaching business targets is not to aim at the impossible, but to aim at the championship level.” [read business-fable]Charles Forte (b. 1908) British founder of Forte hotels and restaurants

Famous Authors - Goals Quotes - Graham Greene

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“Despair is the prize one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.” [read business-fable]Graham Greene (1904 – 91) British novelist and critic

Quotations - Realistic Goals - Arthur Lydiard

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“The goals on which hope are based have to be realistic.” [read business-fable]Arthur Lydiard (1917 - 2004) New Zealand track coach

Famous Goal Setting Quotes - Henry Longfellow

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“If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.” [read business-fable]Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 82) U.S. poet

Business Quotes - Compete Quote - Dick Cavanagh

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“There are two ways to compete – in stable conditions, you plan and you compete on scale. In unstable times, you live by your wits.” [read business-fable]Dick Cavanagh (b. 1946) U.S. business executive

Quotes - Business Strategy - Liam Fahey

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“To win against opponents, companies need strategies for three related tasks: outwitting, outmaneuvering, and outperforming competitors.” [read business-fable]Liam Fahey (b. 1951) British writer and consultant

Strong Competition - Quotations - Mark McCormack

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“Never wrestle with a pig. You get dirty and only the pig enjoys himself.” [read business-fable]Mark McCormack (1930 – 2003) U.S. founder and chairman of the International Management Group

Business Quotes - Competition - Richard Aveni

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“This is not an age of castles, moats, and armor where people can sustain a competitive advantage for very long.” [read business-fable]Richard D' Aveni (b. 1950) U.S. strategist

Quotes - Business Competition - Donald Kendall

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“I feel sorry for those who live without competition ... fat, dumb, and unhappy in cradle-to-grave security.” [read business-fable]Donald M. Kendall (b. 1921) U.S. C.E.O. of PepsiCo

Management Quotes - Leadership - David Ogilvy

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“A chairman who never wanders about his agency becomes a hermit, out of touch with his staff.” [read business-fable]David Ogilvy (1911 – 99) British founder and chairman of Ogilvy & Mather

Quotes - Human Resource Quote - Narayana Murthy

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“Human resources are the greatest assets of any company. You can raise tariffs or prevent MNCs from entering, but one can't stop the employees from leaving if they are dissatisfied.” [read business-fable]Narayana Murthy (b. 1946) Indian founder and C.E.O. of Infosys Technologies

Staff Quotes - Business Quote - Herb Kelleher

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“The more time I spend with our people, the more I find out about our business.” [read business-fable]Herb Kelleher (b. 1931) U.S. co-founder of Southwest Airlines

Employee Quotes - People Asset - Andrew Grove

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“You can't treat your people like an expense item.” [read business-fable]Andrew S. Grove (b. 1936) U.S. chairman of Intel Corporation and business author

Employees Quotes - Staff Quotes - Rod Eddington

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“People are the lifeblood of any airline, and it is the people of BA who will deliver its future success.” [read business-fable]Rod Eddington (b. 1950) Australian C.E.O. of British Airways

Management Quotes - People - Thomas Watson

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“I want to begin with what I think is the most important factor: our respect for the individual. This is a simple concept, but in IBM it occupies a major portion of management time.” [read business-fable]Thomas J. Watson, Jr. (1914 – 93) U.S. president of IBM

Reward Quotes - Motivation Quotes - Jonas Salk

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“I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.” [read business-fable]Jonas Salk (1914 – 95) U.S. physician

Motivation Quotes - Acknowledgement - Reuben Singh

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“Money isn't what motivates entrepreneurs; it is acknowledgement – a craving for your ideas to be acknowledged.” [read business-fable]Reuben Singh (b. 1976) British entrepreneur

Praise Quotes - CEO Quotes - Mary Kay

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“There are two things people want more than sex and money – recognition and praise.” [read business-fable]Mary Kay Ash (1915 – 2001) U.S. founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics

Motivational Quotes - Quotations - Robert Swan

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“If you don't understand what makes people tick, they won't tick.” [read business-fable]Robert Swan (b. 1956) British explorer

Great Quotes - Employees - Robert Townsend

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“Get to know your people. What they do well, what they enjoy doing, what their weaknesses and strengths are, and what they want and need to get from their job.” [read business-fable]Robert Townsend (b. 1920) U.S. business executive and author

Incentives Quotes - Rewards Quotes - Euripides

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“In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great.” [read business-fable]Euripides (480? - 406? B.C.) Greek tragedian

Famous Quotes - Leader Quotes - Paul Keating

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“Leadership is not about being nice. It's about being right and being strong.” [read business-fable]Paul Keating (b. 1944) Australian prime minister

Leadership Quotes - Famous People - Tony Blair

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“The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.” [read business-fable]Tony Blair (b. 1953) British prime minister

Quotes - Decision Making - Aneurin Bevan

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“We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.” [read business-fable]Aneurin Bevan (1897 – 1960) British politician and socialist

Famous CEO Quotes - William Wrigley

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“A few yes men may be born, but mostly they are made. Fear is a great breeder of them.” [read business-fable]William Wrigley (1861 – 1932) U.S. founder of Wrigley Company

Opinion Quotes - Famous People - Henry Thoreau

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“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.” [read business-fable]Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 62) U.S. writer and philosopher

Quotes - Executives - Bosses - Scott Adams

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“The biggest change in the workplace of the future will be the widespread realization that having one idiot boss is a much higher risk than having many idiot clients.” [read business-fable]Scott Adams (b. 1957) U.S. cartoonist and business writer

Manager Quotes - Great Quote - HSM Burns

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“A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him.” [read business-fable]H. S. M. Burns (1900 – 71) British president of Shell Oil Company

Quotes - Accomplishment Quote - Dwight Morrow

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“The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.” [read business-fable]Dwight Morrow (1873 – 1931) U.S. banker and diplomat

Quotes - Managers - Management - Jack Welch

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“Insecure managers create complexity.” [read business-fable]Jack Welch (b. 1935) U.S. chairman and C.E.O. Of General Electric

Power Quotes - Quotation - Jean Fontaine

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“The stronger man's argument is always the best.” [read business-fable]Jean de La Fontaine (1621 – 95) French fabulist and poet

Boss Quotes - Hiring Firing Quotes - Sam Ewing

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“Two things to help keep one's job. First, let the boss think he's having his own way. Second, let him have it.” [read business-fable]Sam Ewing (1920 – 2001) U.S. author

Leadership Quote - Truth Quote - Alfred Robens

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“Leadership, above all, consists of telling the truth, unpalatable though it may be. It is better to go down with the truth on one's lips than to rise high by innuendo and doubletalk.” [read business-fable]Alfred Robens (1910 – 99) British politician

Praise Quotes - Criticism - Somerset Maugham

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“People ask you for criticism but they only want praise.” [read business-fable]W. Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965) British novelist and short story writer

Famous Quotes - Praise Quotes - Albert Camus

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“It is essential to condemn what must be condemned, but swiftly and firmly. On the other hand, one should praise at length what still deserves to be praised.” [read business-fable]Albert Camus (1913 – 60) Algerian-French winner of the Nobel Prize in literature

Praise Quotes - Management - Kenneth Blanchard

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“Congratulations offer more potential than cash. The amount of available cash is limited, but managers have an unlimited supply of congratulations. It's important to pay people fairly, but managers also should heap on congratulations and feed people's souls.” [read business-fable]Kenneth Blanchard (b. 1939) U.S. management theorist and author

Sincerity Quotes - Quotations - Michel Montaigne

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“A man must not always tell all, for that were folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.” [read business-fable]Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 – 92) French essayist

Famous Quotes - Truth Quote - Fyodor Dostoevsky

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“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.” [read business-fable]Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Russian novelist

Business Quotes - Negotiation - Donald Trump

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“My style of dealmaking is quite simple and straightforward. I just keep pushing and pushing to get what I'm after.” [read business-fable]Donald J. Trump (b. 1946) U.S. real estate developer and author

Business - Negotiation Quotes - Charles Dickens

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“Here's the rule for bargains: “Do other men, for they would do you.” That's the true business precept.” [read business-fable]Charles Dickens (1812 – 70) British novelist

Negotiation Quotes - Business - Robert Court

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“It's a well-known proposition that you know who's going to win a negotiation: it's he who pauses the longest.” [read business-fable]Robert Holmes A Court (1937 – 90) Australian entrepreneur

Quotes - Negotiation Quotes - Gertrude Stein

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“Never make concessions.” [read business-fable]Gertrude Stein (1874 – 1946) U.S. writer and poet

Negotiation Quote - Business Quote - Oliver Tambo

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“Be careful, be cautious, do not rush into negotiations ... be careful what you give away now, you may wish you had not done so should in future the balance of forces turn in your favour.” [read business-fable]Oliver Tambo (1917 – 93) South African politician

Management Quotes - Famous People - Oprah Winfrey

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“One of the most important things about being a good manager is to rule with a heart. You have to know the business, but you also have to know what's at the heart of the business and that's people.” [read business-fable]Oprah Winfrey (b. 1954) U.S. talk show host and actress

Inspirational Quotes - Care Quotes - Leo Buscaglia

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“Too often we under estimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” [read business-fable]Leo Buscaglia (1924 – 1998) U.S. inspirational writer

Teamwork Quotes - Famous Persons - Henry Ford

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“Coming together is a beginning.Keeping together is progress.Working together is success.” [read business-fable]Henry Ford (1864 – 1947) U.S. founder of Ford Motor Company

Great Quotes - Quotations - Wilson Mizner

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“Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet 'em on your way down.” [read business-fable]Wilson Mizner (1876 – 1933) U.S. playwright and raconteur

Quotes - Cooperation Quotes - Reg Revans

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“The ultimate power of a successful general staff lies, not in the brilliance of its individual members, but in the cross-fertilisation of its collective abilities.” [read business-fable]Reg Revans (1907 – 2003) British academic

Quotable Quotes - Amadeo Giannini

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“The glad hand is alright in sunshine, but it's the helping hand on a dark day that folks remember to the end of time.” [read business-fable]Amadeo Giannini (1870 – 1949) U.S. founder of Bank of America

Famous Quotes - Famous Authors - Mark Twain

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“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.” [read business-fable]Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S. humorist and writer

Quotes - Great Thinkers - Seneca

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“Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.” [read business-fable]Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4? B.C. - 65 A.D.) Roman philosopher, statesman, and dramatist

Famous Author - Famous Quote - Andre Gide

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“The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.” [read business-fable]André Gide (1869 – 1951) French winner of the Nobel Prize in literature

Business Quotes - Sincerity - Michael Edwardes

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“Managing a business requires a great deal of frankness and openness and you actually lead by being very honest with people.” [read business-fable]Michael Owen Edwardes (b. 1930) British company executive

Sincerity Quotes - Truth Quotes - Elizabeth Bowen

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“Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.” [read business-fable]Elizabeth Bowen (1899 – 1973) Irish writer

Famous Quotes - Governments - Bernard Shaw

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“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.” [read business-fable]George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950) Irish winner of the Nobel Prize in literature

Business Quotations - Planning - Andrew Grove

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“You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.” [read business-fable]Andrew S. Grove (b. 1936) U.S. chairman of Intel Corporation and business author

Planning Quotes - Business - Mark McCormack

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“Today, if someone showed me a five-year plan, I'd toss out the pages detailing Years Three, Four, and Five as pure fantasy ... Anyone who thinks he or she can evaluate business conditions five years from now, flunks.” [read business-fable]Mark McCormack (1930 – 2003) U.S. founder and chairman of the International Management Group

Planning Quotes - CEO Quotes - Warren Buffett

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“Preparation is everything. Noah did not start building the ark when it was raining.” [read business-fable]Warren Buffett (b. 1930) U.S. C.E.O. of Berkshire Hathaway

Strategy Quotes - Business - Henry Mintzberg

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“Mold-breaking strategies grow initially like weeds, they are not cultivated like tomatoes in a hothouse.” [read business-fable]Henry Mintzberg (b. 1939) Canadian business and management theorist

Business Quote - Strategy - Philip Kotler

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“There is only one winning strategy. It is to carefully define the target market and direct a superior offering to that target market.” [read business-fable]Philip Kotler (b. 1931) U.S. marketing management thinker and author

Quotes - Focused Business Strategy - Gary Hamel

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“Creative strategies seldom emerge from the annual planning ritual. The starting point for next year's strategy is almost always this year's strategy ... the company sticks to what it knows, even though the real opportunities may be elsewhere.” [read business-fable]Gary Hamel (b. 1954) U.S. academic and management consultant

Business Leader Quotes - Edwin Land

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“Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.” [read business-fable]Edwin Land (1909 – 91) U.S. inventor and founder of Polaroid Corporation

Business Quotes - Strategy - Michael Dell

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“Swing for hits, not home runs.” [read business-fable]Michael Dell (b. 1965) U.S. chairman and founder of Dell Computer Corporation

Quotes - Business Strategy - Andrew Grove

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“A question that often comes up at times of strategic transformation is, should you pursue a highly focused approach, betting everything on one strategic goal, or should you hedge? ... Mark Twain hit it on the head when he said, 'Put all of your eggs in one basket and WATCH THAT BASKET.'” [read business-fable]Andrew S. Grove (b. 1936) U.S. chairman of Intel Corporation and business author

Famous People - Change Quotes - Isaac Asimov

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“It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.” [read business-fable]Isaac Asimov (1920 – 92) U.S. science fiction novelist and critic

Strategy Quotes - Business - Robert Waterman

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“Strategies that succeed are organic. They evolve. They wrap themselves around problems, challenges, and opportunities, make progress and move on.” [read business-fable]Robert H. Waterman, Jr. (b. 1936) U.S. consultant and author

Quotations - Research Quotes - Bernard Loomis

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“The trouble with research is that it tells you what people were thinking about yesterday, not tomorrow. It's like driving a care using a rearview mirror.” [read business-fable]Bernard Loomis (1923 - 2006) U.S. toy developer and marketer

Quotes - Information Research - Joseph Heller

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“Most of the information we use now is obtained free ... and there is no way of knowing anymore whether the information on which we base our own information for distribution is true or false. But that doesn't seem to matter; all that matters is that the information comes from a reputable source.” [read business-fable]Joseph Heller (1923 – 99) U.S. novelist and satirist

Great Quotes - Assumption - William Ockham

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“Do not assume more variables than necessary.” [read business-fable]William of Ockham (1288? - 1348?) English philosopher and theologian

Business Quotes - Investment - George Soros

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“The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.” [read business-fable]George Soros (b. 1930) U.S. financial speculator, entrepreneur, and philanthropist

Risk Quotes - Politician Quote - Francis Bacon

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“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainty.” [read business-fable]Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626) English philosopher and statesman

Change Quotes - Contentment - Elspeth Huxley

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“Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied at the result.” [read business-fable]Elspeth Huxley (1907 – 97) British author

Quotes - Trust Quotes - Charles Handy

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“Most of our organization tends to be arranged on the assumption that people cannot be trusted ... that sort of attitude creates a paraphernalia of systems, checkers, and checkers checking checkers – expensive and deadening.”Charles Handy (b. 1932) British management thinker and author

Principles Quotes - Compton Mackenzie

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“I don't believe in principles. Principles are only excuses for what we want to think or what we want to do.” [read business-fable]Compton Mackenzie (1883 – 1972) British novelist and nationalist

Famous Quotes - Famous Words - Winston Churchill

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“Dictators ride to and fro on tigers they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.” [read business-fable]Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965) British prime minister

Famous Quote - Blame Quotes - Confucius

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“Things that are done, it is needless to speak about ... things that are past, it is needless to blame.” [read business-fable]Confucius (551 – 479 B.C.) Chinese thinker and philosopher

Business Quote - Customers - Edwards Deming

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“Profits in business comes from repeat customers; customers that boast about your product and service, and that bring friends with them.” [read business-fable]W. Edwards Deming (1900 – 93) U.S. statistician and consultant

Quotes - Business Leader - Thomas Watson

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“There aren't any categories of problems here. There's just one problem. Some of us aren't paying enough attention to our customers.” [read business-fable]Thomas J. Watson, Sr. (1874 – 1956) U.S. founder and president of IBM

Quotes - Criticism Quotes - Jay House

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“Cheers hearten a man. But jeers are just as essential. They help maintain his sense of balance and proportion.” [read business-fable]Jay E. House (1870 – 1936) U.S. journalist

Quotations - Blame Quotes - Tom Stoppard

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“Underneath runs the main current of preoccupation, which is keeping one's nose clean at all times. This means that when things go wrong you have to pass the blame along the line, like pass-the-parcel, till the music stops.” [read business-fable]Tom Stoppard (b. 1937) British playwright and screenwriter

Quotes - Positive Feedback - Carl Shapiro

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“Positive feedback makes the strong grow stronger and the weak grow weaker.” [read business-fable]Carl Shapiro (b. 1955) U.S. academic and author

CEO Quotes - Creativity Quote - Narayana Murthy

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“Organizations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.” [read business-fable]Narayana Murthy (b. 1946) Indian founder and C.E.O. of Infosys Technologies

Creativity Quotes - Quotations - John Cleese

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“If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.” [read business-fable]John Cleese (b. 1939) English comedian and actor
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