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Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.

Colin Powell

Statesman · American · b. 1937

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

Businessman · American · 1862 – 1939

Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Author · American · b. 1935

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

Joseph Addison

Writer · English · 1672 – 1719

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

Peter Drucker

Businessman · American · 1909 – 2005

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

Sydney Pollack

Director · American · 1934 – 2008

We need comprehensive reform that will make America the best place in the world to invest and do business.

Jim DeMint

Politician · American · b. 1951

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Harold S. Geneen

Businessman · British

Well, Bill, I don't think you're going to find many shy people that are in the political business.

Scott McCallum

Politician · American · b. 1950

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.

Peter Lynch

Businessman · American · b. 1944

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

Journalist · American · 1927 – 1996

Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.

Nelson A. Miles

Soldier · American · 1839 – 1925

The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

Frederick Soddy

Scientist · English · 1877 – 1956

If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself.

James Sinegal

Businessman · American · b. 1936

This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control.

David Neeleman

Businessman · Brazilian · b. 1959

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

Olusegun Obasanjo

Statesman · Nigerian · b. 1937

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

Aristotle

Philosopher · Greek

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

George Savile

Politician · English · 1726 – 1784

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Stephen Covey

Businessman · American · b. 1932

The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.

John B. S. Haldane

Scientist · British · 1892 – 1964

When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun.

Anita Roddick

Businessman · English · b. 1942

Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.

Michael Newdow

Lawyer · American · b. 1953

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Gaston Bachelard

Philosopher · French · 1884 – 1962

I would like this to be a new day. I would hope now that we can focus on doing the people's business.

Ernie Fletcher

Politician · American · b. 1952

It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.

Michael Eisner

Businessman · American · b. 1942

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

William Feather

Author · American · 1889 – 1981

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

Woodrow Wilson

President · American · 1856 – 1924

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

Alexander Pope

Poet · English · 1688 – 1744

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

W. Edwards Deming

Scientist · American · 1900 – 1993

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

Writer · American · 1888 – 1955

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Gerald Brenan

Writer · English

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

Ludwig von Mises

Economist · Austrian · 1881 – 1973

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

Harold S. Geneen

Businessman · British

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Isaac Asimov

Scientist · American · 1920 – 1992

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

William Weld

Politician · American · b. 1945

Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.

Bruce Barton

Author · American · 1886 – 1967

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.

Louis Kronenberger

Critic · American · 1904 – 1980

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal.

Jacques Barzun

Educator · American · b. 1907

I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.

Richard Ernst

Scientist · Swiss · b. 1933

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

Orison Swett Marden

Writer · American

It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people.

Lee R. Raymond

Businessman · American · b. 1938

Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you.

Alphonsus Liguori

Clergyman · Italian · 1696 – 1787

I like Biggie. Like 'Pac, he was one of the best rappers in the business. Why would I try to do something to him?

Suge Knight

Producer · American · b. 1965

We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.

Ingvar Kamprad

Businessman · Swedish · b. 1926

Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.

Harvey S. Firestone

Businessman · American · b. 1868

God will forgive me; that's his business.

Heinrich Heine

Poet · German · 1797 – 1856

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Edward Kennedy

Politician · American · 1932 – 2009

So if I die, somebody else from the corporation will take over the business.

Alex Chiu

Businessman · American · b. 1971

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