17 Business
1) A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
- Stephen Covey
2) And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
- Andrew Carnegie
3) Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.
- Edgar R. Fiedler
4) Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
- Henry Ford
5) Business, that's easily defined - its other people's money.
- Peter Drucker
6) My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.
- Oscar Wilde
7) For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.
- Zig Ziglar
8) Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
- Jack Welch
9) Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, and no trust.
- Zig Ziglar
10) It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.
- Mahatma Gandhi
11) I understand small business growth. I was one.
- George W. Bush
12) Carpe per Diem - seize the check
- Robin Williams
13) Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
- Henry Ford
14) Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
- Winston Churchill
15) Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
- Peter F. Drucker
16) If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
- B. C. Forbes
17) To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
- John H. Patterson
18) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
- Earl Nightingale
19) In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
- Warren Buffett
20) Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
- Steve Jobs