Weblust: Quotes

Fred's Favorite Quotes About Business

The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society. 
-- Peter F. Drucker

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
-- Peter F. Drucker

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
-- Peter F. Drucker

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. 
-- Rita Mae Brown

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
-- Winston Churchill

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
-- Winston Churchill

Never confuse motion with action. 
-- Ben Franklin

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-- 
It gives a lovely light!
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. 
-- Bertrand Russell 

Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.
-- Henry David Thoreau

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. 
-- Mark Twain

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity there ain't nothing can beat teamwork. 
-- Mark Twain

Stupidity got us into this mess, why can't it get us out? 
-- Will Rogers

Things should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. 
-- Albert Einstein

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. 
-- Winston Churchill

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. 
-- Peter F. Drucker

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. 
-- Thomas Alva Edison

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it is written on. 
-- Samuel Goldwyn (1882--1974)

For every problem, there is one solution, which is simple, neat and wrong. 
-- Henry Louis Mencken (1880--1956)

There is no security on this earth. There is only opportunity. 
-- Douglas Macarthur 

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. 
-- Mark Twain

Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones. 
-- Nancy Astor

You must choose between making money and making sense. The two are mutually exclusive. 
-- R. Buckminster Fuller

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.
-- M. Anthony Burns

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.
-- Scott McNealy

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