"It's not about you, it's about the next person. The single best use of a business book is to help someone else. Sharing what you read, handing the book to a person who needs it... pushing those around you to get in sync and to take action-that's the main reason it's a book, not a video or a seminar. A book is a souvenir and a container and a motivator and an easily leveraged tool. Hoarding books makes them worth less, not more."
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"We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative."
"If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself."
"I'm an expert in higher level math. You + God = Enough"
"I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot of records, let's sell some more."
"Being first is more important to me [than earning money]. I have so much money. Whatever money is, it's just a method of keeping score now. I mean, I certainly don't need more money."
"One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about."
"I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss."
"Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe."
"The position you hold and the work you are now doing."
"I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right?"
"The most successful scientists in the history of the world are those who posed the right questions"
"In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness."
"Come home to men's business and bosoms."
"You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has to be that 15%, somebody's got to be one of those women."
"My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner."
"In the UK what we've found is that even businesses which prided themselves already on their efficient management find that a really beady-eyed scrutiny of their resource management, with an eye to environmental best-practice and long term sustainability, produce fresh efficiency and fresh savings that actually shock those in the company"
"What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for the interest of the business, because they wish to have the honor of succeeding in that which they have undertaken."
"Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as the most potent oligarchy yet produced."
"When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected."