Kutipan (Quote) - Business (1)

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain 

I want to put a ding in the universe.
Steve Jobs 

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Steve Jobs 

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce 

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Niccolo Machiavelli 

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Thomas Carlyle 

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Thomas A. Edison 

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
William Feather 

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 

All lasting business is built on friendship.
Alfred A. Montapert 

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 

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie 

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 

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

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Albert Einstein 

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Confucius 

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill 

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 

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca 

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
Sam Walton 

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Laurence J. Peter 

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Herbert Hoover 

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
Henry Ford 

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 

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas A. Edison

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

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
John Greenleaf Whittier 

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
Will Rogers 

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin 

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
Fred Allen 

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Winston Churchill 

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
Robert Orben

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell 

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 

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Abraham Lincoln 

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Robert H. Schuller 

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

Business is a combination of war and sport.
Andre Maurois 

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Khalil Gibran 

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