Business Sayings and Quotes
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Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
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Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie 
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
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- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
- Anonymous
Be resolute in your goals,
but flexible in your tactics.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
Example is leadership.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Give somebody a gold star - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Leaders are those who empower others.
- Bill Gates
Lead follow or get out of the way.
- Thomas Paine
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau
The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith
in their mission
can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's work only if I say it's work,
but it's play if I say it's fun.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unless both sides win,
no agreement can be permanent.
- Jimmy Carter
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't talk about what you have done
or what you are going to do.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
Profit is a by-product of work;
happiness is its chief product.
- Henry Ford
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
The success of a project is best predicted
by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.
He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
- Ralph Nader
What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business
that allows us to experience the present,
free of contamination from the past.
- Joan Borysenko
The expert in battle seeks his victory
from strategic advantage
and does not demand it from his men.
- Sun Tzu
Leadership is the art of getting someone else
to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Busy Sayings
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
Get busy living or get busy dying.
- Stephen King
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job,
tell 'em, Certainly I Can. -
and get busy and find out how to do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt
To say "too busy" is merely
to say "confused priorities."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Keep busy - with tasks that inspire you,
motivate you, or please you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success usually comes to those
who are too busy to be looking for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
- Anonymous
He who is too busy doing good
finds no time to be good.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
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