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

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

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
Theodore Isaac Rubin on business

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.
Colin Powell on business

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

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 on business

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
George Bernard Shaw on business

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 on business

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Andy Warhol on business

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

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 on business

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 on business

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 on business

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Henry Ford on business

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

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

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Henry Ward Beecher on business

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
Will Rogers on business

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
Walt Disney on business

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Robert H. Schuller on business