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You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.
Steve Ross on business

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
Tim Berners-Lee on business

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
Edward Appleton on business

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
Ted Turner on business

To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.
Alvin Toffler on business

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
Stanislaw Lem on business

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
Andre Malraux on business

People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'
Sinclair Lewis on business

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
Edgar R. Fiedler on business

Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.
Meg Whitman on business

What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'
Steve Ballmer on business

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.
Steve Ballmer on business

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
Evan Esar on business

Business can be a source of progressive change.
Jerry Greenfield on business

Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.
Mitchell Kapor on business

If you have to forecast, forecast often.
Edgar R. Fiedler on business

Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.
Richard Nelson Bolles on business

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.
Igor Sikorsky on business

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.
Paul A. Volcker on business

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.
Scott McNealy on business