c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
To make a long story short  . . . there's nothing like having the boss walk in.
— Anonymous
Committee: A group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
— Milton Berle
A decorator can make lots of money -  assuming she wins the lottery.
— Wendy Morgan
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
— Nicholas M. Butler
Nothing in fine print is ever good news.
— Andy Rooney
Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up 'cause they're looking for ideas.
— Paula Poundstone
He's always been known to be entrepenurious.
— Wendy Morgan
After being on the road so much I want to spend more time with my family  who I hear are wonderful people.
— Howie Mandel
To be a leader you need a lot of people dumb enough to follow.
— Anonymous
Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk  tomorrow's senior partner.
— Sigourney Weaver
Don't be humble. You're not that great.
— Golda Meir
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
— Mark Twain
No one leads the orchestra without turning his back on the crowd.
— Anonymous
I succeed him  no one could replace him.
— Thomas Jefferson
I often feel like the director of a cemetery. I have a lot of people under me  but nobody listens!
— General John Gavin
The whole world knows we have it made in America . . . made in China  made in Mexico  made in Japan.
— Anonymous
The motto in the workaholic Silicon Valley is "Stop for lunch and you are lunch."
— Anonymous
Christmas is over and Business is Business.
— Anonymous
Anybody can cut prices  but it takes brains to produce a better article.
— P. D. Armour
Business is religion  and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force  and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.
— Maltbie Babcock
The nature of business is swindling.
— August Bebel
There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it  and when he can.
— Samuel L. Clemens
They (corporations) cannot commit treason  nor be outlawed  nor excommunicated  for they have no souls.
— Sir Edward Coke
The business of America is business.
— Calvin Coolidge
Business is likeoil. It won't mix with anything but business.
— J. Graham
Whose merchants are princes.
— Bible
Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business ?
— Bible
We demand that big business give people a square deal  in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honesdy endeavors to do right  he shall himself be given a square deal.
— Theodore Roosevelt
That which is everybody's business  is nobody's business.
— Izaak Walton
Call on a business man at business times only  and on business  transact your business and go about your business  in order to give him time to finish his busmess.
— Duke of Wellington
The way to stop financial "joy-riding" is to arrest the chauffeur  not the automobile.
— Woodrow Wilson
It is not the crook in modern business that we fear  but the honest man who does not know what he is doing.
— Owen D. Young
Everyone lives by selling something.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
It is naught  it is naught  saith the buyer. But when he is gone his way  then he boasteth.
— Bible
Piracy  n: commerce without its folly-swaddles - just as God made it.
— Ambrose Bierce
A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.
— Marty Allen
A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
— Harold Coffin
Who buys has need of two eyes But one's enough to sell the stuff.
— Anonymous
Bargain: something you can't use at a price you can't resist.
— Franklin P. Jones
Don't buy the house  buy the neighborhood.
— Russian proverb
A fair price for oil is whatever you can get plus ten to twenty per cent.
— Anonymous
A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.
— Arthur William Radford
An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.
— Franklin P. Jones
What costs nothing is worth nothing.
— Anonymous
Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.
— Ben Jonson
Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
— Publilius Syrus
There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper  and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
— John Ruskin
Cheat me in the price but not in the goods.
— Thomas Fuller
When you buy  use your eyes and your mind  not your ears.
— Czechoslovakian proverb
People will buy anything that's one to a customer.
— Sinclair Lewis
Cutting honest throats by whispers.
— Walter Scott
Calumniate  calumniate  there will always be something which sticks.
— Pierre Beaumarchais
Calumny is a vice of curious constitution  trying to kill it keeps it alive  leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.
— Thomas Paine
To persevere in one's duty and to be silent is the best answer to calumny.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.
— Tommy Douglas
Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4 000 miles long. St John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan  Italy than to Vancouver.
— Simon Hoggart
Canada is so square even the female impersonators are women.
— Anonymous
No one is the worse for knowing two languages.
— Oliver Mowat
One of the cool  chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.
— John Updike
That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean  guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations  as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.
— Winston Churchill
To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American.
— David Cronenberg
You've never seen this country It's not the way you thought it was Look again.
— Al Purdy
The whole history of the Canadian north can be divided into two periods - before and after the aeroplane.
— Hugh Keenleyside
The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.
— Stephen Leacock
The father of confederation is deadlock.
— Goldwin Smith
The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse  was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which is induced by the flat spaces and wide horizons of the virgin prairie of western Canada.
— T. E. Hulme
Quebec is the original heart  the hardest and deepest kernel  the core of first time. All round  nine other provinces form the flesh of this still-bitter fruit called Canada.
— Anne Hubert
Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.
— Goldwin Smith
Americans like to make money: Canadians like to audit it. I know no country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.
— Northrop Frye
I suppose the half-breeds in Manitoba  in 1870  did not fight for two hundred forty acres of land  but it is to be understood there were two societies who treated together. One was small  but in its smallness it had its rights. The other was great  but in its greatness it had no greater rights than the rights of the small  because the right is the same for everyone.
— Louis Riel
Canada's national bird is the grouse.
— Stuart Keate
Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics.
— Northrop Frye
An arena large as Europe Silent waiting the contest
— F. R. Scott
There has never been a war of Canadian origin  nor for a Canadian cause.
— William Arthur Deacon
Canada is a collection often provinces with strong governments loosely connected by fear.
— Dave Broadfoot
Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler  slower pace - it lends perspective.
— Paul Anka
My generation of Canadians grew up believing that  if we were very good or very smart  or both  we would some day graduate from Canada.
— Robert Fulford
We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States  but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.
— Northrop Frye
Never hear anything bad about Canada  that's one thing - in fact  I guess it's the only thing.
— Walter Stewart
Canada is a society  rather than a nation.
— Kildare Dobbs
Living next to the United States is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast  one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
— Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Canada reminds me of vichyssoise - it's cold  half-French and difficult to stir.
— Stuart Keate
Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the world which is a pure colony  colonial in psychology as well as in mercantile economics.
— Northrop Frye
Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty  as they do air  without thought or appreciation.
— Dean Acheson
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada  while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
— J. Bartlet Brebner
'Old Tomorrow.'
— Sir John A. Macdonald
'Rich by nature  poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.
— Goldwin Smith
Canadian politics in British Columbia is an adventure  on the Prairies a cause  in Ontario a business  in Quebec a religion  in the Maritimes a disease.
— Paul St. Pierre
(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness.
— Wyndham Lewis
When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street  it couldn't be anywhere but Canada  but how can I prove it?
— Margaret Mead
Newfoundland is a great English ship  moored near the Banks during the fishing season for the convenience of the English fishermen.
— A. H. Mcintosh
The land too poor for any other crop  is best for raising men.
— R. Pocock
I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.
— Leonard Cohen
Is heaven more beautiful than the country of the muskox in summer when sometimes the mist blows over the lakes  and sometimes the water is blue  and the loons cry very often?
— Saltatha Inuit
Much will have to change in Canada if the country is to stay the same.
— Abraham Rotstein
The Greeks  who knew everything  understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country.
— Hugh MacLennan
Canada is a live country - live  but not  like the States  kicking.
— Rupert Brooke
There was a small boy of Quebec Who was buried in snow to the neck: When they said 'Are you friz?' He replied 'Yes  I is - But we don't call this cold in Quebec!'
— Rudyard Kipling
The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States.
— Adlai Stevenson
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania  that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
— Margaret Atwood
Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.
— Pierre Elliott Trudeau
We sing about the North  but live as far south as possible.
— J. B. McGeachy
Canada has no cultural unity  no linguistic unity  no religious unity  no economic unity  no geographic unity. All it has is unity.
— Kenneth Boulding
So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries  one here and one in Europe  national unity will remain a myth and a constant source of internecine quarrels.
— Henri Bourassa
We French-Canadians belong to one country  Canada: Canada is for us the whole world: but the English-Canadians have two countries  one here and one across the sea.
— Wilfrid Laurier
My father spoke French with a Bank of Montreal accent.
— Hartland de Montarville Molson
If a player continues transgressing the rules  his side shall lose him.
— Anonymous
That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning.
— John G. Diefenbaker
Love Canada or give it back.
— Indian saying in Saskatchewan
The Americans are our best friends - whether we like it or not.
— Robert Thompson
Scenery here in Canada is by the mile  whereas in England it is by the foot. In England there is a great wealth of 'pretty bits'. In Canada there is a great lack of them. But there are grandeur  vastness and expansive views.
— A. Brooker Klugh
Canada's climate is nine months winter and three months late in the fall.
— Evan Esar
The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours  sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them  yet cannot make plain his difference.
— J. B. Priestley
He wants to be different from everyone else and daydreams of winning the global race  Parents unmarried and living abroad  relatives keen to bag the estate  schizophrenia not excluded  will he learn to grow up before it's too late?
— Earle Birney
To be Canadian is to live in relative calm and with great dignity.
— William Davis
John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced.
— Anthony Burgess
Canadians have been accustomed to define themselves by saying what they are not.
— William Kilbourn
I know that through the grace of God  I am the founder of Manitoba.
— Louis Riel
Actually  when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene  nobody outdoes Canadians  myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.
— Mordecai Richler
Canadians are generally indistinguishable from Americans  and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make the observation to a Canadian.
— Richard Staines
A Torontonian is a man who leaves culture to his wife.
— Brendan Behan
Toronto has no social classes - only the Masseys and the masses.
— B. K. Sandwell
TheSc ots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head  heart and haggis.
— William Osier
Listen your Lordship  I'm a respecter of institutions. Even in Paris  I remained a Canadian. I puffed hashish  but I didn't inhale.
— Mordecai Richler
One man out of every five who lands on our shores is a foreigner- i.e. non-Anglo-Saxon. He comes here with a foreign tongue  foreign ideals  foreign religion  with centuries of ignorance and oppression behind him  often bringing with him problems that the best statesmen of Europe have failed to solve.
— W. D. Reid
I think a stalwart peasant in a sheepskin coat  born on the soil  whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations  with a stout wife and a half-dozen chickens  is good quality.
— Clifford Sifton
The Canadian spirit is cautious  observant and critical where the American is assertive.
— V. S. Pritchett
If we can find out why the idea rather than the nation of Canada can win a growing loyalty rather than commanding it  then  it seems to me  we shall have come very near to trapping the elusive creature  the Canadian Identity.
— George Woodcock
Beneath their work the moral core of Canadian nationhood is found in the fact that Canada is a monarchy and in the nature of monarchial allegiance. As America is united at bottom by the covenant  Canada is united at the top by allegiance. Because Canada is a nation founded on allegiance and not on compact  there is no pressure for uniformity  there is no Canadian way of life. Any one  French  Irish  Ukrainian or Eskimo  can be a subject of the Queen and a citizen of Canada without in any way changing or ceasing to be himself.
— W. L. Morton
If ever Confederation fails  it will not be because Quebec - the political voice of French Canada - has separated from it. It will be because the way to keep Quebec in it has not been found.
— Jean Lesage
When the white man came  we had the land and they had the bibles. Now they have the land and we have the bibles.
— Chief Dan George
We shall be Canadians first  foremost  and always  and our policies will be decided in Canada and not dictated by any other country.
— John G. Diefenbaker
The situation is one something like living with your wife. Sometimes it is difficult and even irritating to live with her  but it is always impossible to live without her.
— Lester Pearson
The Ottawa river flows out of Protestant Ontario into Catholic Quebec.
— Hugh MacLennan
The twentieth century belongs to Canada.
— Wilfrid Laurier
We often say that we fear no invasion from the south  but the armies of the south have already crossed the border - American enterprise  American capital is taking rapid possession of our mines and our water power  our oil areas and our timber limits.
— Sara Jeannette Duncan
The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.
— Lister Sinclair
The habitant is the true Canadian  for he has no other country.
— Ramsay Traquair
The immigrant who comes to Canada really sees the country much more as a whole. He doesn't know the nuances which are so important and so dearly beloved by the Torontonian or the Montrealer.
— Brian Moore
Give us men to match our mountains  Give us men to match our plains: Men with empires in their purpose And new eras in their brains.
— H. T. Miller
Ottawa is a city where nobody lives  though some of us may die there.
— Michael Macklem
Canada was settled  in the main  by people with a lower middle-class outlook  and a respect  rather than an affectionate familiarity  for the things of the mind.
— Robertson Davies
The trouble with this whole country is that it's divided up into little puddles with big fish in each one of them.
— Hugh MacLennan
Historically  a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution.
— Northrop Frye nobody
belongs anywhere  even the Rocky Mountains are still moving.
— George Bowering
Let us be French as the Americans are English.
— Henri Bourassa
Confederation is only yet in the gristle  and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.
— John A. Macdonald
You are a big country now  but you still tend to feel small and fragile. If the United States gets a cold  you get pneumonia.
— Herman Kahn
I was brought up in southwestern Ontario where we were taught that Canadian patriotism should not withstand anything more than a five-dollar-a-month wage differential. Anything more than that and you went to Detroit.
— J. K. Galbraith
You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian  but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity  and this is one of our marvellous resources.
— Marshall McLuhan
Not necessarily conscription  but conscription if necessary.
— William Lyon Mackenzie King
Whenever the Germans found the Canadian Corps coming into the line  they prepared for the worst.
— David Lloyd George
Canadian nationalism was systematically encouraged and exploited by American capital. Canada moved from colony to nation to colony.
— Harold A. Innis
Ours is a sovereign nation Bows to no foreign will But whenever they cough in Washington They spit on Parliament Hill.
— Joe Wallace
Of course  Canadians are different. There is no malice in us. We are the family doctor whom no one has called in for consultation. We are the children of the midday who see all in the clear  shallow light.
— Charles Ritchie
I know that Nature designs that this whole continent  not merely these thirty-six states  shall be  sooner or later  within the magic circle of the American union.
— William Seward
In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature  Scotch for sermons  and American for conversation.
— Stephen Leacock
The story of Canada is that if one meeting fails  you have another meeting.
— Robert Rae
Capital is a result of labor  and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force  and labor is therefore the employer of capital.
— Henry George
Labor is prior to  and independent of  capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor  and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital  and deserves much the higher consideration.
— Abraham Lincoln
Capital is dead labor that  vampirelike  lives only by sucking living labor  and lives the more  the more labor it suck.
— Karl Marx
Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor  nor labor without capital.
— Pope Leo
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
— John Henry Boetcker
Those who can  do  those who can't  teach  and those who can do neither  administer.
— Collet Calverley
There can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money from the people who have earned it and giving it away to the people who haven't  in exchange for their votes and regardless of merit  is the essence of fairness.
— Conrad Black
Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the business man.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
No-wher so bisy a man as he ter nas  And yet he semed bisier that he was.
— Geoffrey Chaucer
As one retiring chief executive said to his successor "Yesterday was the last day you heard the truth from your subordinates."
— Robert W. McMurry
Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.
— Mason Cooley
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behaviour that is often considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
— Robert Rice
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble-making individual.
— James K. Glassman
The big print giveth and the fine print taketh away.
— Monsignor J. Fulton Sheen
Expenditure rises to meet income.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
— George Bernard Shaw
If you fail to plan  you plan to fail.
— Old saying
It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services.
— Albert J. Nock
Man exploits man. Under communism  it's just the opposite.
— Russian saying
It might be termed the Law of Triviality. Briefly stated  it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in adverse proportion to the sum involved.
— Northcote Parkinson
It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world  or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law  than it takes to operate a taxi cab or fry a pan of fish.
— H. L. Mencken
Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.
— Anonymous
Managers don't have to cook the books to manipulate earnings  they often have all the power they need in the leeway built into accounting rules.
— Fred S. Worthy
Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense  and great expense  may be an essential part of true economy.
— Edmund Burke
One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.
— Dean Rusk
Remember that when an employee enters your office  he is in a strange land.
— Erwin H. Schell
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation  governments can confiscate  secretly and unobserved  an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
— John Maynard Keynes
The big unions served a noble purpose once  and bless them for it. Now they're part of the problem and must give way if America is to move and to participate in management and achieve reasonable productivity.
— Robert Townsend
Luck is infatuated with the efficient.
— Persian proverb
One of the best-kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment  if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.
— John Naisbitt
The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.
— John Naisbitt
The corporation is an artificial being  invisible  intangible  and existing only in contemplation of law.
— John Marshall
The forces in a capitalist society  if left unchecked  tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
The manager with the in-basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of activities that fail to excite him.
— Priscilla Elfrey
To business that we love we rise betime  And go to it with delight.
— William Shakespeare
The white man knows how to make everything  but he does not know how to distribute it.
— Sitting Bull
There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
— Peter F. Drucker
There is only one social responsibility of business - to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits without deception or fraud.
— Milton Friedman
Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management  without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.
— Robert Heller
Today's sales should be better than yesterday's - and worse than tomorrow's.
— Old saying
Twenty generations ago - around the year 1390 - you had 1 048 576 ancestors. In the 21st generation of your family that number will double again.
— Genealogical Research Library
We have yet to find a significant case where the company did not move in the direction of the chief executive's home.
— Ken Patton
You are never giving  nor can you ever give  enough service.
— James R. Cook
In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content  So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20%.
— George Canning
Christmas is over  and Business is Business.
— Franklin Pierce Adams
People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
— J. K. Galbraith
Competition means decentralized planning by many separate persons.
— Friedrich Hayek
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to a judicious use of sabotage.
— Thorstein Veblen
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
— Northcote Parkinson
One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.
— Harold Wilson
Few have heard of Fra Luca Parioli  the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping  but he has probably had more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.
— Herbert J. Muller
When you've got them by their wallets  their hearts and minds will follow.
— Fern Naito
Chaplin is no businessman - all he knows is that he can't take anything less.
— Sam Goldwyn
What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm  capitalism is that kind of a system.
— Milton Friedman
Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.
— G. C. Lichtenberg
Patience is a most necessary quality for business  many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
— Lord Chesterfield
A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.
— Will Rogers
In economics  the majority is always wrong.
— J. K. Galbraith
Whenever you see a successful business  someone once made a courageous decision.
— Peter Drucker
Pounds are the sons  not of pounds  but of pence.
— Charles Buxton
Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.
— Alexandre Dumas
A man isn't a man until he has to meet a payroll.
— Ivan Shaffer
As a rule  from what I've observed  the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night  he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a Captain of Industry again.
— P. G. Wodehouse
I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
— Harold Geneen
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
— J. C. Pollard
Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification  not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to grow after the New Deal. Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
— Norman Cousins
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
— Paul Getty
The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
— Josh Billings
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
— Laurence J. Peter
What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.
— Henry David Thoreau
Business is a combination of war and sport.
— Andri Maurois
Net - the biggest word in the language of business.
— Herbert Casson
Big business is basic to the very life of this country  and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction.
— David Lilienthal
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
— Aristotle Onassis
Don't gamble  take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up  then sell it. If it don't go up  don't buy it.
— Will Rogers
Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
— John D. Rockefeller
All business proceeds on beliefs  on judgements of probabilities  and not on certainties.
— Charles W. Eliot
Corporations cannot commit treason  nor be outlawed  nor excommunicated  for they have no souls.
— Edward Coke
People of the same trade seldom meet together  even for merriment and diversion  but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public  or in some contrivance to raise prices.
— Adam Smith
Capital is past savings accumulated for future production.
— Jackson Martindell
Power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
— Alexander Hamilton
In the history of enterprise  most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education - not in the classroom  where the old ways are taught  but in the factories and labs where new ways are wrought ... nothing has been so rare in recent years as an Ivy League graduate who has made a significant innovation in American enterprise.
— George Gilder
If a cluttered desk is an indication of a cluttered mind  what is indicated by an empty desk?
— Anonymous
A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
— Paul Valery
Had there been a computer a hundred years ago  it would probably have predicted that by now there would be so many horse-drawn vehicles it would be impossible to clear up all the manure.
— K. William Kapp
The Middle East is a region where oil is thicker than blood.
— James Holland
All professions are a conspiracy against the country.
— George Bernard Shaw
Labour is not a commodity  or a standard  or a means to an ulterior end  but an end in itself.
— George Brockway
Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.
— Lord Chesterfield
Along this tree From root to crown Ideas flow up And vetoes down.
— Peter Drucker
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
— Howard Scott
Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.
— Peter Drucker
Business is more exciting than any game.
— Lord Beaverbrook
A company is judged by the president it keeps.
— James Hulbert
Inflation is defined as the quality that makes balloons larger and candy bars smaller.
— General Features Corporation
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
It is not the employer who pays wages - he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.
— Henry Ford
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure  it interests the whole mind . . . more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.
— Walter Bagehot
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
— John D. Rockefeller
In all modern depressions  recessions  or growth-correction  as variously they are called  we never miss the goods that are not produced. We miss only the opportunities for the labour - for the jobs - that are not provided.
— J. K. Galbraith
The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organize gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.
— Edward de Bono
To convert an hourly wage to an approximate yearly salary  double the wage and change the decimal to a comma.
— Don Tichnor
After an eight-hour day  workers require three overtime hours to produce two regular hours of results.
— Anonymous
Gross National Product is our Holy Grail.
— Stuart Udall
When two men in business always agree  one of them is unnecessary.
— William Wrigley
Few great men could pass Personnel.
— Paul Goodman
You build on cost and you borrow on value.
— Paul Reichmann
By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
— Adam Smith
Management is now where the medical profession was when it decided that working in a drug store was not sufficient training to become a doctor.
— Lawrence Appley
The Bell System is like a damn big dragon. You kick it in the tail  and two years later  it feels it in its head.
— Frederick Kappel
Benefits should be granted little by little  so that they may be better enjoyed.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
The price spoils the pleasure.
— French proverb
Whose bread I eat  his song I sing.
— German proverb
To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.
— Thomas Haliburton
The night shall be filled with music And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs  And as silently steal away.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Old Care has a mortgage on every estate  And that's what you pay for the wealth that you get.
— J. G. Saxe
Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.
— Voltaire
For want of a nail the shoe was lost  for want of a shoe the horse was lost  and for want of a horse the rider was lost  being overtaken and slain by the enemy  all for want of care about a horseshoe nail.
— Benjamin Franklin
Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.
— Benjamin Franklin
The wife of a careless man is almost a widow.
— Hungarian proverb
Ding  dong  bell  Pussy's in the well  Who put her in? Little Tommy Green. Who pulled her out? Little Johnny Stout.
— Anonymous
When the cat's away the mice will play.
— English proverb
It has been die providence of nature to give this creature nine lives instead of one.
— Pilpay
There is not room to swing a cat.
— George Smollett
A cat may look at a king.
— John Heywood
There is one basic cause of all effects.
— Giordano Bruno
In war events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
— Julius Caesar
Christian Science explains all cause and effect as mental  not physical.
— Mary Baker Eddy
God befriend us  as our cause is just!
— William Shakespeare
Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.
— Spinoza
The first springs of great events  like those of great rivers  are often mean and little.
— Jonathan Swift
If your lips would keep from slips five things observe with care: To whom you speak  of whom you speak  And how  and when  and where.
— Anonymous
Hasten slowly.
— Augustus Caesar
A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.
— Miguel de Cervantes
When you go to buy use your eyes  not your ears.
— Czech proverb
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
— Miguel de Cervantes
The cautious seldom err.
— Confucius
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
— Euripides
Little boats should keep near shore.
— Benjamin Franklin
Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
— Victor Hugo
It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others.
— Syrus
To limit the press is to insult a nation  to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
— Samuel Johnson
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
— Oscar Wilde
Knowledge cannot defile  nor consequently the books  if the will and conscience be not defiled.
— John Milton
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion  and if we were sure  stifling it would be an evil still.
— John Stuart Mill
No government ought to be without censors  and where the press is free  no one ever will.
— Thomas Jefferson
Censorship  like charity  should begin at home  but unlike charity  it should end there.
— Clare Boothe Luce
Obscenity is whatever gives a judge an erection.
— Anonymous American Lawyer
You censure this with difficulty because you have allowed it to become customary.
— St. Jerome
I am mortified to be told that  in the United States of America  the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry  and of criminal inquiry too.
— Thomas Jefferson
If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal  nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.
— Voltaire
Every burned book enlightens the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I make the most of all that comes  And the least of all that goes.
— Sara Teasdale
If you do not expect it  you will not find the unexpected  for it is hard to find and difficult.
— Heraclitus
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less travelled by  And that has made all the difference.
— Robert Frost
Unless a man has trained himself for his chance  the chance will only make him ridiculous.
— W. Matthews
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it  will be a fish.
— Ovid
Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
— Anatole France
The harder you work  the luckier you get.
— Gary Player
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
The luck of having talent is not enough  one must also have a talent for luck.
— Hector Berlioz
In the field of observation  chance favours the prepared mind.
— Louis Pasteur
If you were born lucky  even your rooster will lay eggs.
— Russian proverb
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will  but remember it didn't work for the rabbit!
— R. E. Shay
Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.
— J. Christopher Herold
Every man  even the most blessed  needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.
— Vance Bourjaily
With luck on your side you can do without brains.
— Giordano Bruno
If fortune turns against you  even jelly breaks your tooth.
— Persian proverb
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
— William Shakespeare
I'm a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work  the more I have of it.
— Stephen Leacock
Vexed sailors curse the rain For which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
— Edmund Waller
A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.
— Juan Ramon Jimenez
Change is not made without inconvenience  even from worse to better.
— Richard Hooker
All things are subject to change  and we change with them. (Omnia mutantur  nos et mutamur in illis.)
— Anonymous
If you want things to stay as they are  things will have to change.
— Giuseppe di Lampedusa
The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party  but they say nothing  and if we do not use the gifts they bring  they carry them as silently away.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more things change  the more they stay the same. (Plus ca change  plus c'est la meme chose.)
— Alphonse Karr
There are three things which the public will always clamor for  sooner or later: namely  novelty  novelty  novelty.
— Thomas Hood
There is nothing permanent except change.
— Heraclitus
You can't step into the same river twice.
— Heraclitus
What is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place.
— T. S. Eliot
As one gets older  one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.
— Noel Coward
All changes  even the most longed for  have their melancholy  for what we leave behind us is apart of ourselves  we must die to one life before we can enter into another.
— Anatole France
When you get there  there isn't any there there.
— Gertrude Stein
Change must be measured from a known base line.
— Evan Shute
I can generally bear the separation  but I don't like the leave-taking.
— Samuel Butler
All things must change to something new  to something strange.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I see gr-reat changes takin' place ivry day  but no change at all ivry fifty years.
— Finley Peter Dunne
'Change' is scientific  'progress' is ethical  change is indubitable  whereas progress is a matter of controversy.
— Bertrand Russell
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
— Ramsay Clark
Would that life were like the shadow cast by a wall or a tree  but it is like the shadow of a bird in flight.
— The Talmud
Everything passes  everything wears out  everything breaks.
— French proverb
I've learned only that you never say never.
— Marina von Neumann Whitman
Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word  too.
— Oscar Wilde
The most ominous of fallacies: the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.
— Freya Stark
What is actual is actual only for one time  and only for one place.
— T. S. Eliot
Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place. ... New harmonies  new contrasts  new combinations of every sort. ... The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other  to their work  to surrounding objects.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Just when I think I have learned the way to live  life changes.
— Hugh Prather
We change  whether we like it or not.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
— John F. Kennedy
Because things are the way they are  things will not stay the way they are.
— Bertolt Brecht
The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change  of perpetual flux.
— Sir James Frazer
Wherever we are  it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else  and whatever we do  however well we do it  it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
All is change  all yields its place and goes.
— Euripides
O visionary world  condition strange  Where naught abiding is but only change.
— James Russell Lowell
Things alter for the worse spontaneously  if they be not altered for the better designedly.
— Francis Bacon
For good and evil  man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in  a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
— Joyce Cary
All things change  nothing is extinguished.
— Ovid
Life is always at some turning point.
— Irwin Edman
Everything flows  nothing stays still.
— Heraclitus
Nothing in this world is permanent.
— German proverb
There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent.
— Ralph L. Woods
Nothing is permanent but change.
— Heraclitus
Time  in the turning-over of days  works change for better or worse.
— Pindar
Impermanence is the law of the universe.
— Carlene Hatcher Polite
Everything changes but change itself.
— John F. Kennedy
Would that life were like the shadow cast by a wall or a tree  but it is like the shadow of a bird in flight.
— Talmud
Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected  the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.
— Berenice Abbott
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
— Karen Kaiser Clark
Change is the law of life.
— John F. Kennedy
Life is measured by the rapidity of change  the succession of influences that modify the being.
— George Eliot
To live is to change  and to be perfect is to change often.
— John Henry Cardinal Newman
One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort  for change is the essence of life.
— Anatole France
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
— Herbert Spencer
When you're through changing  you're through.
— Bruce Barton
Change is the only evidence of life.
— Evelyn Waugh
To exist is to change  to change is to mature  to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
— Henri Bergson
Life belongs to the living  and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
— Johann von Goethe
Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
— Shirley MacLaine
What is more enthralling to the human mind than this splendid  boundless  colored mutability!-Life in the making?
— David Grayson
You must change in order to survive.
— Pearl Bailey
The basic fact of today is the tremendous.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change  and change is the basic law.
— Hal Borland
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
— John Dewey
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
— C. S. Lewis
When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age  ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one  and do without change.
— George Bernard Shaw
Variety is the soul of pleasure.
— Aphra Behn
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles  one would hardly see anybody.
— Agatha Christie
I'm tired of playing worn-out depressing ladies in frayed bathrobes. I'm going to get a new hairdo and look terrific and go back to school and even if nobody notices  I'm going to be the most self-fulfilled lady on the block.
— Joanne Woodward
The healthy being craves an occasional wildness  a jolt from normality  a sharpening of the edge of appetite  his own little festival of the Saturnalia  a brief excursion from his way of life.
— Robert Maclver
Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.
— Myrtle Reed
There is a certain relief in change  even though it be from bad to worse  as I have found in traveling in a stagecoach  it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.
— Washington Irving
None of us knows what the next change is going to be  what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner  waiting to change all the tenor of our lives.
— Kathleen Norris
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness  but in allowing happiness to change its form ... happiness  like a child  must be allowed to grow up.
— Charles L. Morgan
In embracing change  entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.
— George Gilder
Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
— Mary Bateson
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity  not a threat.
— Prince Phillip of England
Changes are not only possible and predictable  but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
— Gail Sheehy
I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.
— Dodie Smith
Continuity gives us roots  change gives us branches  letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
— Pauline R. Kezer
I've learned that you'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory  where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.
— Kirstie Alley
The things we fear most in organizations-fluctuations  disturbances  imbalances-are the primary sources of creativity.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
It is in changing that things find purpose.
— Heraclitus
Turbulence is a life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
— Ramsay Clark
In all change  well looked into  the germinal good out-vails the apparent ill.
— Francis Thompson
The time is ripe  and rotten-ripe  for change  then let it come.
— James Russell Lowell
Society can only pursue its normal course by means of a certain progression of changes.
— Anonymous
Continuity in everything is unpleasant.
— Blaise Pascal