The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail. – Napoleon Hill
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. – Adam Smith
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
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. – Henry Ward Beecher
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. – Robert H. Schuller
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. – Aristotle Onassis
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. – Peter Drucker
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. – Henry R. Luce
The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government. – Mitt Romney
Our favorite holding period is forever. – Warren Buffett
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time! – Coco Chanel
Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. – Thomas Carlyle
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. – Colin Powell
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. – Peter Drucker
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything. – W. Clement Stone
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch. – Tim Berners-Lee
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon. – David Ogilvy
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth. – John Greenleaf Whittier
About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends. – Herbert Hoover
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body – the producers and consumers themselves. – Herbert Hoover
