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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

A manager doesn't hear the cheers.

People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

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.

One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it's the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you're dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

If you fire people, you fire customers.

If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.

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.

The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it.'

Never argue with a profit.

Business can be a source of progressive change.

You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.

If you have to forecast, forecast often.

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.

I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.

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.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.