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Dan Surface, The One Business Book You Absolutely Must Own! · Mark Hopkins, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations · Walter V. Kaulfers, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Boxing is just show business with blood. – Frank Bruno
Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down. – Frank Lloyd Wright
Business strategies can interestingly be assimilated with medicinal drugs. There are no better or worse strategies. There are only adequately adopted business strategies or inappropriately selected and implemented strategies. – Abderrahman Hassi
Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste. – William A. Smith
Haste in every business brings failures. – Herodotus
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for perfection is God's business. – Michael J. Fox
I would not bet against US innovation, entrepreneurship and business culture - The trinity that drives economic growth and recovery. Yes, we do face a major crisis, but we also do have a proven track record of recovery. – Med Jones
In business when you are attracting new business by the positive manner with which you have handled your old business that is called magnetism and it is practically irresistible. – Chase LeBlanc
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. – Warren Buffett
Nicky I think in all fairness, I should explain to you exactly what it is that I do. For instance tomorrow morning ill get up nice and early, take a walk down over to the bank and... walk in and see and uh... if you don't have my money for me, I'll... crack your f*in' head wide-open in front of everybody in the bank. And just about the time I'm comin' out of jail, hopefully, you'll be coming out of your coma. And guess what I'll split your fin' head open again. 'Cause I'm fin' stupid. I don't give a f* about jail. That's my business. That's what I do. – Casino
Since the beginning of business history, managers have come to realize their competitiveness depends on being able to find, develop and retain top talent – Med Jones
Sustaining high business performance is a product of continuous strategic alignment – Med Jones
The knowledge, wealth, and development gaps among nations is reducing and the reign of superpowers is shortening. Just look at the history of the Roman, Islamic, Russian and British empires, the newer the power the shorter the reign. In the economic and business worlds the same power cycles apply. Ford, IBM, Nokia and other companies all lost their leadership position to newer companies. – Med Jones
The knowledge, wealth, and development gaps among nations is reducing and the reign of superpowers is shortening. Just look at the history of the Roman, Islamic, Russian and British empires, the newer the power the shorter the reign. In the economic and business worlds the same power cycles apply. Ford, IBM, Nokia and other companies lost their leadership position to newer companies faster than their predecessors – Med Jones
To coldfriend or coldfriending - Reaching out of the blue, via the internet, to a previously unknown person, for business purposes. – Chase LeBlanc
You cut the jacket to fit the person, you do not cut the person to fit the jacket. Do not imitate the strategies of your competitors or blindly implement industry best practices. The Leader of an organization must analyze the situation and customize the business plans to fit the organization's position. – Med Jones
It is not possible to have a politics-free organization. The desire for power and control is part of the human nature. Successful business leaders know how to leverage organizational politics by setting performance-oriented instead of resources-oriented political rewards. – Med Jones
Innovation in products, services, value chains and business models is the only sustainable growth strategy. New knowledge and business networks will shape the new global economy. – Med Jones
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. – Thomas Paine
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there. – Irving
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. – Henry David Thoreau
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand. – Thomas Carlyle
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. – Ambrose Bierce
I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's a fantastic brand loyalty. – Warren Buffett
The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older. – Hume Cronyn

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