Business Quotes - Page 39

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.

Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools - but they must be kept to a minimum.

Success is the result of clear goal, unshakable confidence, proper planning, enthusiastic ACTION and consistent persistence.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

A person who hasn't grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.

If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Just because it happened to you, doesn't mean it's interesting.

A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

Success is not a straight line, it's much more of a dance and being open to possibilities.

Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.

It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'

Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.

I've been in this business my whole life. I'm pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt.

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

The greatest challenge to organizations is the balance between continuity and change. You need both. At different times, the balance is slightly more over here, or slightly more over there, but you need both. And balance is basically the greatest task in leadership. Organizations have to have continuity, and yet if there is not enough new challenge, not enough change, they become empty bureaucracies, awfully fast.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.