| Citat |
Sagt av |
| Affärer är mer spännande än något annat spel. | Kitty O'Neill Collins |
| Att göra affärer är som sex. När det är bra så är det väldigt, väldigt bra; när det inte är så bra, är det ändå bra. | George Katona |
| Att göra film är den långsammaste verksamheten på jorden näst efter att tillverka fossil. | Aaron Latham |
| Att öppna en affär är enkelt, att fortsätta hålla den öppen är en konst. | Chinese Proverbs |
| Den företagare som anser sig befriad från behovet av marknadsföring kommer förr eller senare att finna sig befriad från företagande. | Derby Brown |
| Det som hjälper människor, hjälper affärer. | Leo Burnett (1891-1971) |
| Du kan inte göra dagens arbete med gårdagens metoder och fortfarande vara kvar i affärerna imorgon. | Zig Ziglar |
| Du läser en bok från början till slut. Du gör affärerna tvärtom. Du börjar med slutet, sedan gör du allt du måste för att ro hem den. | Harold S. Geneen (1910-1997) |
| För att lyckas i affärer är det nödvändigt att få andra att se sakerna som du ser dem. | John H. Patterson |
| Hemligheten med affärer är att veta någonting som ingen annan vet. | Aristoteles Onassis (1906-1975) |
| Hemligheten med affärer är att veta något som ingen annan vet. | Aristoteles Onassis (1906-1975) |
| Hemligheten med affärer är att veta nånting som ingen annan vet. | Aristoteles Onassis (1906-1975) |
| I affärsvärlden, får man betalt på två olika sätt: kontanter och erfarenhet. Ta erfarenheten först; kontanterna kommer senare. | Harold S. Geneen (1910-1997) |
| Jag är gift med mina affärer. | Betty Rivera |
| Lev tillsammans som bröder och gör affärer som främlingar. | Arabian Proverb |
| Min levnadsregel är att göra affärsverksamheten till ett nöje, och nöje till min affärsverksamhet. | Aaron Burr (1756-1836) |
| Mina egna affärer tråkar ut mig till döden; Jag föredrar andras. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Människan är ett djur som köpslår: inget annat djur gör det - hundar byter inte ben med varandra. | Adam Smith (1723-1790) |
| Om jag vore i den här affären för affärer, skulle jag inte befinna mig i den här affären. | Sol Hurok (1888-) |
| Om världen fungerar som en enda stor marknad, så konkurrerar varje anställd med varje annan människa var som helst i världen som kan göra samma jobb. Sådana finns det många, och många av dem är hungriga. | Andy Grove |
| Sälj en fisk till en man, så har han mat för dagen, lär honom hur man fiskar, så har du förstört en fantastik affärschans. | Karl Marx mamma (1818-1883) |
| If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world | Andrew Mellon |
| The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be only sustainable competitive advantage. | Arie de Geus |
| Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living. | Barry C. Forbes |
| A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results | Bertie C. Forbes |
| The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision. | Bruce Barton (1886-1967) |
| Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America. | Christina Aguilera (1980-) |
| 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. | Derby Brown |
| It's a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball. | Don Drysdale (1936-1993) |
| To make a long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in. | Doris Lilly (1926-1991) |
| If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent. | Edward S. Herman |
| A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts. | Elvis Presley (1935-1977) |
| Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure. | Fran Lebowitz (1950-) |
| I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that. | George P. Shultz (1920-) |
| To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest | Harlan Stone |
| In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything. | Harold Coffin |
| I don't know any other business that tells you not to go in and buy their product. | Jack Valenti (1921-) |
| The Internet is the Viagra of big business. | Jack Welch |
| There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster. | Jerry Della Femina |
| Hollywood has its Oscars. Television has its Emmys. Broadway has its Tonys. And advertising has its Clios. And its Andys, Addys, Effies and Obies. And 117 other assorted awards. And those are just the big ones. | Joanne Lipman |
| Whenever you're sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear. That's the way I always operated in business. | Joseph P. Kennedy (1888-1969) |
| We will never try to develop a strategy that wins on price. There is nothing unique about pricing. | Josh S. Weston |
| You are not in business to be popular. | Kirstie Alley (1951-) |
| The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the face of social change | Laurence Joseph McGinley |
| In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Unless you've got a good team, you can't do much with the other two. | Lee Iacocca (1924-) |
| In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet. | Lord Chandos |
| Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business. My business. | Mark Russell (1932-) |
| Show business is just like high school, except you get paid. | Martin Mull (1943-) |
| In this business, you can never wash the dinner dishes and say they are done. You have to keep doing them constantly. | Mary Wells Lawrence |
| In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time | Owen Felltham |
| A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train | Paul Dickson |
| As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth. | Paul Keating (1944-) |
| To be in the right is often an expensive business. | Phyllis Bottome (1884-1963) |
| The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable. | Red Auerbach (1917-) |
| You sell a company twice. First of all, you sell them the product, then you sell them the service. | Richard Brock |
| People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold. | Richard Thalheimer |
| If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there? | Robert Townsend (1957-) |
| It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. | Theodore Parker |
| Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps. | Willie Mays (1931-) |
| Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly | André Maurois (1885-1967) |
| A shady business never yields a sunny life | Bertie C. Forbes |
| Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation. | Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948) |
| I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary. | Gerald Barzan |
| Business will get better, but we won't know when it does | Henry Ford (1863-1947) |
| Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession. | Henry R. Luce (1898-1967) |
| It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business | Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) |
| The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart | John, Lord Morley |
| There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them | Joseph Roux (1834-1905) |
| Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it. | Lee Iacocca (1924-) |
| The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders. | Leo Burnett (1891-1971) |
| We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.' | Leo Burnett (1891-1971) |
| Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation. | Milan Kundera (1929-) |
| The ultimate test of a finished account executive is his ability to write a sound marketing plan. | Morris Hite |
| There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two. | Norman R. Augustine |
| In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing. | Pablo Casals (1876-1973) |
| A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator. | Paul Valéry (1871-1945) |
| Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good | Stephen Fry (1957-) |
| Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. | Tom Robbins (1936-) |
| Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them. | W. Edwards Deming (1900-1993) |
| Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible | William Feather (1889-1981) |
| Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business | William Wycherley (1640-1716) |
| Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. | Jack Welch |
| In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Unless you've got a good team, you can't do much with the other two. | Lee Iacocca (1924-) |
| Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. | Henry Ford (1863-1947) |
| It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else. | Tom Peters |
| Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust. | Zig Ziglar |
| In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time | Owen Felltham |
| Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision | Peter F. Drucker (1909-) |
| Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them. | W. Edwards Deming (1900-1993) |
| Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. | Henry Ford (1863-1947) |
| The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do... | David Joseph Schwartz |
| I understand small business growth. I was one. | George W. Bush (1946-) |
| Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| I will deal with them according to their conduct, and by their own standards I will judge them | Bible |
| Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. | Karl Marx mamma (1818-1883) |
| The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business. | Aaron Burr (1756-1836) |
| Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money. | Alexandre Dumas Père (1802-1870) |
| I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me. | Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) |
| In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
| Business before pleasure | American Proverb |
| Business is a combination of war and sport. | André Maurois (1885-1967) |
| If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world | Andrew Mellon |
| Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. | Andy Warhol (1928-1987) |
| Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art | Andy Warhol (1928-1987) |
| The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting | Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) |
| If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business. | B. C. Forbes (1880-1954) |
| No nation was ever ruined by trade. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| The first mistake in public business is the going into it. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star. | Bette Davis (1908-1989) |
| Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money in hobby software. | Bill Gates (1955-) |
| Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved. | Bill Gates (1955-) |
| This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50. | Bill Gates (1955-) |
| In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone. | Bill Gates (1955-) |
| Not all those who are attempting to conduct successful businesses are profiteers | Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) |
| Business will be either better or worse | Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) |
| Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business | Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) |
| After all, the chief business of the American people is business | Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) |
| The business of America is business. | Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) |
| No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| The business of the law is to increase the business of the law | Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
| Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most who serves best" and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying. | Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) |
| All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties. | Charles W. Eliot (1834-1926) |
| In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete. | Cher (1946-) |
| I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter. | D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) |
| The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment | D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) |
| Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes. | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help. | Donald Rumsfeld (1932-) |
| When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time | Edgar Watson Howe (1853-1937) |
| It is in the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| Big business makes its money out of buy - products | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts. | Elvis Presley (1935-1977) |
| Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago. | Erma Bombeck (1927-1996) |
| In business I want to be a pig because pigs get fatter and hogs gets slaughtered. | Felix Sabates |
| When you're green, you're growing, and when you're ripe, you're dead. | Felix Sabates |
| If you've got $20 million coming in and $30 million going out, sooner or later your wife's going to say, 'Hey, what are you doing?' | Felix Sabates |
| When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business. | Flannery O'Connor |
| Men in great place are thrice servants, - servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business. | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| Time is the measure of business. | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| Come home to men's business and bosoms. | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business. | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
| Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do. | George F. Burns (1896-1996) |
| In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely. | H. Jackson Brown, Jr. |
| So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces | Henry Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) |
| 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 (1817-1862) |
| The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time. | Henry Ford (1863-1947) |
| Business will get better, but we won't know when it does | Henry Ford (1863-1947) |
| Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets | Henry Ford (1863-1947) |
| A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business. | Henry Ford (1863-1947) |
| The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| He (the businessman) is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot. | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| For it is your business, when the wall next door catches fire. | George Horace Lorimer (1867-1937) |
| He's happy who, far away from business, like the races of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay. | George Horace Lorimer (1867-1937) |
| No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work. | Hosea Ballou (1771-1852) |
| The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. | Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (1939-) |
| A meeting is an event where minutes are taken and hours wasted. | James T. Kirk |
| Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does. | Jane Austen (1775-1817) |
| The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers. | Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801) |
| My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire. | Jonathan Gilbert (1946-) |
| In this business, fame lasts for a second. You can be blown up and be blown down. People keep losing interest in faces because new ones come along every single second. I'm one at the moment. Tomorrow I won't be. That's cool. I'm not saying that when it does end, I'll be like, 'Yay! It's ending.' But I'll move on and do something else because that's what has to be done. It's about survival. If you're sad about it, then you're in the wrong job. | Keira Knightley (1985-) |
| Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community. | Kofi Annan (1938-) |
| If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion. | L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986) |
| The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better. | Lee Iacocca (1924-) |
| Why is our free-enterprise system so strong?- Not because it stands still, frozen in the past, but because it has always adapted to changing realities | Lee Iacocca (1924-) |
| In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits. | Lee Iacocca (1924-) |
| In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Unless you've got a good team, you can't do much with the other two. | Lee Iacocca (1924-) |
| Few people do business well who do nothing else | Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) |
| Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all | Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) |
| It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. | Malcolm S. Forbes (1919-) |
| Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character. | Maltbie Davenport Babcock |
| Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight - this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one - this is business | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. | Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) |
| The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds. | Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) |
| War is the business of barbarians | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. | Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) |
| Test and Learn is a great business tool which delivers value. | Paul Moran |
| If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards, getting it. | Paulo Coelho (1947-) |
| A business exists to create a customer | Peter F. Drucker (1909-) |
| A merchants happiness hangs upon chance, winds, and waves | Proverb |
| Men that have much business must have much pardon | Proverb |
| Do business best when the wind's in the west | Proverb |
| He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher | Publius Cornelius Tacitus (55-117) |
| I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service. | Richard Bach (1936-) |
| Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause. | Rose F. Kennedy (1890-1995) |
| One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| There is nothing more fatal to a man whose business is to think than to have learned the art of regaling his mind with airy gratifications | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| All vendor demos are boring. It's the law, I think. | Scott Adams (1957-) |
| As a rule, anything in a binder has very little value, except as building material. | Scott Adams (1957-) |
| A good metaphor can make any bad idea sound good. | Scott Adams (1957-) |
| A project is complete when it starts working for you, rather than you working for it. | Scott Allen (1948-) |
| Sometimes it takes an expert to point out the obvious. | Scott Allen (1948-) |
| By refusing to implement the women’s contracting program and repeatedly failing to meet required contracting goals, this administration is undermining virtually every existing opportunity for women business owners to break into the the good ol’ boy network of federal contracting | Senator John Kerry (1943-) |
| Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. | Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) |
| We demand that big business give people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right, he shall himself be given a square deal | Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) |
| Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! | Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) |
| The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand. | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money. | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion of principle but that of gain | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it. | Ugo Betti (1892-1953) |
| I never called my work an 'art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment. | Walt Disney (1901-1966) |
| He [Mickey Mouse] popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner. | Walt Disney (1901-1966) |
| Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind ... more deeply. But it does not look as if it did. | Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) |
| When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. | Warren Buffett (1930-) |
| In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. | Warren Buffett (1930-) |
| The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help get them back in bed again | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable. | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself. | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| With our industry being watched so carefully by governmental agencies, with the FTC ready to pounce on every claim we make, what we CAN say in our ads is forever narrowing and the sharpest tool left for us is HOW we say it. | William Bernbach (1911-1982) |
| The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart. | William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) |
| A business with a income at its heels, furnishes always oil for its own wheels | William Cowper (1731-1800) |
| In business for yourself, not by yourself. | William James (1842-1910) |
| Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back. | Justice William Orville Douglas (1898-1980) |
| Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope. | William Penn (1644-1718) |
| To business that we love we rise betime And go to it with delight | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Good counselors lack no clients | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| The maxim of the British people is Business as usual. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him | Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924) |
| Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. | Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924) |
| For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough. | Zig Ziglar |