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Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are preparing to use it; when they do not require it, they allow it to remain unbent, for otherwise it would remain unserviceable when the time for using it arrived. So it is with man. If he were to devote himself unceasingly to a dull round of business, without breaking the monotony by cheerful amusements, he would fall imperceptibly into idiocy, or be struck by paralysis
--Herodotu

Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
--Peter Drucker

It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.
--Malcolm Forbe

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
--Thomas Carlyle

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
--Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
--Grenville Kleiser

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
--Charles M Schwab American stockbroker

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind ... more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.
--Walt Bagehot economist

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
--John Cleese

All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims.
--Lou Holtz former Notre Dame football coach

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
--Gertrude Stein

Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.
--Wayne Calloway

Most business plans fail. Obviously, success is not a realistic goal But the people who manage the most spectacular failures get promoted because of their experience.
--Dogbert

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
--Samuel Johnson Essayist, Lexicographer

If you do a lot of things to build business, you'll build business. They don't have to be done perfectly to work, although the better you do them, the better they'll work. But the main point is that you have to do them -- a lot.
--Joe Girard (02/01/28-) How To Sell Anything To Anybody

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting
--David Letterman

The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.
--Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

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...This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.
--Isaac Asimov

Mr. Ward, what is it that the foulest bastards on earth denounce us for, among other things? Oh yes, for our motto of 'Business as usual.' Well--business as usual, Mr. Ward!
--Ayn Rand. Hank Rearden Atlas Shrugged

All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual
--Margaret Thatcher

There's no business like show business
--Irving Berlin

Our favourite holding period is forever.
--Warren Buffet

Cut your losses and let your profits run.
--Proverb

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
--General George S. Patton

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
--Henry Ford

The purpose of a business is to create and keep customers.
--Theodore Levitt

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing,, layout, processes, and procedures.
--Tom Peters

It's a poor workman who blames his tools.
--Unknown

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
--Peter F. Drucker

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
--Warren G. Bennis

They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters. These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
--Bible, Psalms 107:23

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
--W. Edwards Deming

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
--Thomas J. Watson Jr


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