c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
I rang the bell and she opened the door, dried her hands, and said heartily: 'Hello, stranger. I was just saying to Cliff only tonight, it's about time you showed up around here.'I wanted to detach him from her, but first I had to sit through about ten minutes of her. She was my sister, but you don't tell women things like I wanted to tell him. I don't know why, but you don't. You tell them the things you have under control; the things that you're frightened of, you tell other men if you tell anyone. ("Nightmare")
— Cornell Woolrich, Baker's Dozen: 13 Short Mystery Novels
Guys are always confused by how soft and sentimental they are.
— Sarah Miller, Inside the Mind of Gideon Rayburn
Here was a man who'd learned to write before he could think, a man who threw out logical fallacies like tacks behind a getaway car, and he always always always got away.
— Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai
But you would still settle for me if I were that last, wouldn't you? Women are like that. They have to have a male.
— Joyce Dingwell, The All-the-Way Man
It was male, of course; menace is always male. ("Nightmare")
— Cornell Woolrich, Baker's Dozen: 13 Short Mystery Novels
Oh.My. Every illegal swear word in the dictionary, God. What is it with older men? don't they ever look in the mirror?
— Diane Messidoro, How to Keep a Boy as a Pet
As dogs return to their vomit, some men return to their wives.
— Anthony Liccione
Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men
—  this is the essential truth of pornography.
When a man in purple and screaming pink stares at you, you know it's time to change your appearance.
— Susan Ee, Angelfall
Quaint and picturesque, though I didn't voice my opinion out loud. Keirran and Annwyl were faeries, and Kenzie was a girl, so it was okay for them to notice such things. as a card-carrying guy club, I wasn't going to comment on the floral arrangements.
— Julie Kagawa, The Lost Prince
When we first got married, we made a pact. It was this: In our life together, it was decided I would make all of the big decisions and my wife would make all of the little decisions. For fifty years, we have held true to that agreement. I believe that is the reason for the success in our marriage. However, the strange thing is that in fifty years, there hasn’t been one big decision.
— Albert Einstein
Okay, guys. Stop it. Are you going to start peeing on me to mark your territory?
— Maegan Lynn Moores, Wilde Ride
Little girls fear being a princess that was never rescued but little boys fear being a prince that was too late.
— Tommy Tran
Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.
— Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things
Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (...)‘And?’‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective in reason, how mean his facilities, how ugly in form and movement, in action how like a devil, in apprehension how like a cow. The beauty of the world? The paragon of animals? To me the quintessence of dust.
— Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things
The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dog’s dinner but the whole world is not big enough for it. Man spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing. From the lamb he tears its guts and makes his harp resound; from the wolf his most deadly tooth to polish his pretty works of art; from the elephant his tusks to make a toy for his child.(...)And who will exterminate him who exterminates all others?
— Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things
We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.
— Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things
My mother always said - "Never run after a man or a bus - there is always another one coming.
— Tessa Kiros, Limoncello and Linen Water
Still, who could say what men ever were looking for? They looked for what they found; they knew what pleased them only when they saw it.
— Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
Adeline was really rather charming, she always had a man in her life, but it never worked out: either they were nice but she didn't find them very exciting; or they were exciting but she didn't find them particularly nice, or they were neither nice nor exciting and she wondered why she was with them at all. She found a way of making the exciting men nicer and that was by leaving them. But then, they weren't exciting anymore either.
— François Lelord, Hector and the Search for Happiness
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
— Stewart L. Udall
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
— William Shakespeare, As You Like It
But I tended not to date men who ever showed up for me.
— Kimberly Novosel, Loved
A broken heart, too much cold beer, ocean waves and a willing man were never a good combination, no matter what the country songs said.
— Patti Callahan Henry, Driftwood Summer
How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what do we do? We men turn terribly mean, because we can't hold to the world or ourselves or anything. We are blind to continuity, all breaks down, falls, melts, stops, rots, or runs away. So, since we cannot shape Time, where does that leave men? Sleepless. Staring.
— Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.
— Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things
As my father talked, tears dripped down the side of his face like candle wax. The sight shocked me; until that moment, I had assumed men were as incapable of crying as they were of having babies.
— Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone
I admit, that the brain does not govern the body as well as one might wish- else all men would be saints and hell would be empty of lechers.
— Meredith Duran, At Your Pleasure
There is always hope for man or dog in life if only they be cute
— Chris Pariseau
He was the kind of guy who made Sadie a lit­tle un­com­fort­able. The kind who wore leather and drank beer and crushed emp­ties on their fore­heads. The kind who made her stand a lit­tle straighter. The kind she avoided like a hot fudge brownie be­cause both were bad news for her thighs.
— Rachel Gibson, Rescue Me
I am sensible that to own an inclination for a man is to put one's self wholly in his power
—  but sure you have generosity enough not to abuse it.
Nine women possess the same rights as a man... to learning and knowledge.
— Kathleen Krull quote by Eliza Orzeskowa
Kate was never going to understand the extent to which men were stupid.
— Chris Pavone
The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the reason why a man is often heartbroken, is because a woman can become overcome by the reality that she has made a man out of a boy, because it's just such an overwhelming process, a beautiful and powerful evolution. Therefore, a man needs to fall in love with a woman who knows that men don't happen every day, and when a man does happen, that's a gift! A gift not always given, and one that shouldn't be thrown away so easily.
— C. JoyBell C.
The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and misplace their combs, and yet you were suppose to fall at their feet? Unacceptable.
— Libba Bray, Beauty Queens
Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us. One does does not make choices in freedom. Instead, one conforms in body type and behavior and values to become an object of male sexual desire, which requires an abandonment of a wide-ranging capacity for choice...Men too make choices. When will they choose not to despise us?
— Andrea Dworkin, Intercourse
Seriously, Jack, I think you might be the only guy in this city who hasn’t read his stuff. Collin McCann is like the Carrie Bradshaw of Chicago men.”“You mean Terry Bradshaw,” Jack corrected.“No, Carrie,” Wilkins repeated. “You know, Sarah Jessica Parker. Sex and the City.”A silence fell over the room as Collin and Jack stared at Wilkins, seriously fearing for the fate of men.
— Julie James, Something About You
Women should never chase elevators, buses or men, because there will always be another one!
— Anonymousmale1
If boys don't learn, men won't know.
— Douglas Wilson
Heartbroken men are like wild animals, running around with hysteria in their eyes, desperately trying to knock the dents out of their egos. 
— Jessica    Thompson, This is a Love Story
If she could find a man who could feel and laugh as well as desire, she might even think about thinking about marriage.
— Melanie Rawn, The Ruins of Ambrai
If women are breadwinners and men bring home the bacon, why do people complain about having no dough? I'm confused. Also hungry.
— Stephen Colbert
Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.
— E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
I think I know why you never married, Sarah.""Well, and I reckoned if I wanted something that'd come and go as he pleased, take me for granted, and ignore me when he chose, I'd get a cat. And if I wanted something I'd always have to be picking up after, getting into trouble, but slavishly devoted, I'd get a dog.
— Mercedes Lackey
Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.
— Harry Truman
[On marriage and permanent attach
— Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
There was an art to the male posterior. That's all there was to it.
— Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells
What their scorned, over-fucked mothers never teach them is this: men can be hurt, too.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
man can not live on chocolate .... but women can
— Hannah
If there was some way of knowing which boys were likely to turn out to be decent men, boys that could love us back as passionately as we felt we could love them, then we could banish the likelihood of divorce and unhappiness to a statistically unlikely outcome.
— Belinda Jeffrey, One Long Thread
If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?...I mean, men give her [a queen] power. They let her use their power. But it isn't hers, is it? It isn't because she's a woman that she's powerful, but despite it.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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— Helen Rowland
If he's like any other man I've ever met, it's not my smile he's going to be looking at.
— Brad Thor, Black List
The wild women in his lap,' my father enthused, 'laying their breasts on his head.'There was a moment of stunned silence. Then my mother spoke slowly, with an edge to her voice. 'I think you mean "wild beasts laying their heads in his lap".''Do I?
— Patrick Rothfuss
This is a perfect example of how entirely out of hand the women in this country have gotten. You act like men aren't anything more than extraneous amusements, little toys to keep you entertained.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Fancy Pants
It is natural for our unamiable sex to dislike the creatures, for you ladies lavish so many caresses upon them.
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
I like simple men and complicated women.
— Don DeLillo
Submissive men, men who desire to serve as consensual slaves, are on one of the most difficult journeys in the world today, because they have rejected patriarchal privilege and embraced their own heart's calling instead.
— TammyJo Eckhart, At Her Feet: Powering Your Femdom Relationship
The Y Chromosome, organized religion and money are the roots of all evil.
— William  Hageman
All those men who end up disappointing you. After a while, you don't even want to have feelings anymore. You just want to get on with your life.
— Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City
If you find a man who trusts you, who isn't afraid, who sees you for who you are, and if it feels like he knows you for who it is that you simply are, and thinks all of that is beautiful; know that you have found a rare thing.
— C. JoyBell C.
The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
— Mae West
The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
Men lie the most,women tell the biggest lies.
— Chris Rock
I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?" "Never mind," Fflewddur said, "We aren't really expected to.
— Lloyd Alexander, The Book of Three
Men are most virile and attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don't have time to teach him.
— Hedy Lamarr
If you want a man who's commited, go look in a mental hospital.
— Alexandra Potter, Do You Come Here Often?
Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately ... good looking stuff; you're doing all right.""Sam," I say, "that's not true; I am one of God's most lonely men.
— Charles Bukowski
Take pride away from a man and you might as well run a knife through his heart.
— Julie Garwood, Mercy
... a man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn't know anything.
— E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
Behind every successful woman, there's a big prick.
— James Patterson, Season of the Machete
Both men had made her feel as if she were the one who was at fault, a typically masculine reaction to a woman who was able to act independently of them.
— Flora Kidd, Passionate Choice
I have never seen a wrestling match or prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.
— Hedy Lamarr
You’re a guy. It’s typical for your sex to want to conquer every eligible girl you see.
— Kristin R. Campbell, Lunangelique
Sam Littleton was a beautiful woman who would try to play women's games. That meant that if he asked her if she was upset with him about something, she would do what women all do at such times: She would deny that anything was wrong, then continue acting as if something was wrong, in hopes that he would do what men always do at such times -beg for an explanation, agonise over the answer, ask for hints, and agonise a little more.
— Judith McNaught, Someone to Watch Over Me
Stimulated by the juice, I believe, men have even been known to ride alligators.
— P.G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves
Men need to be needed. When we are needed, we feel powerful. We thrive on helping a woman who needs us.
— C.T.
We do tend to overreact when we feel threatened. Men, I mean.
— Keira Grant, Glow in the Dark
I munched a carrot, then broke off a piece of bread and teamed it with another bite of salmon. Every single bit could be a different taste sensation. It was like men. Each was unique. Most had some great qualities, the majority had a few disappointing ones, and a few were total losers.
— Susan Fox, His, Unexpectedly
In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity
— Sun Tzu, A Arte da Guerra
Advertising is legalized lying.
— H.G. Wells
The best way to predict your future is to create it
— Peter F. Drucker
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
— Warren Buffett
There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive.
— Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic Takes Manhattan
Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.
— Sidney Sheldon, Master of the Game
Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society - how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair.
— Muhammad Yunus, Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.
— Vince Lombardi Jr.
But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself.Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!
— Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.
— John M. Gottman
Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
— Peter F. Drucker
Steve Jobs gave a small private presentation about the iTunes Music Store to some independent record label people. My favorite line of the day was when people kept raising their hand saying, "Does it do [x]?", "Do you plan to add [y]?". Finally Jobs said, "Wait wait — put your hands down. Listen: I know you have a thousand ideas for all the cool features iTunes could have. So do we. But we don't want a thousand features. That would be ugly. Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.
— Derek Sivers
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves it s amazing what they can accomplish.
— Sam Walton
You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.
— Ronald Reagan
Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.
— T. Harv Eker, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth
When [what you are deeply passionate about, what you can be best in the world at and what drives your economic engine] come together, not only does your work move toward greatness, but so does your life. For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. Perhaps, then, you might gain that rare tranquility that comes from knowing that you’ve had a hand in creating something of intrinsic excellence that makes a contribution. Indeed, you might even gain that deepest of all satisfactions: knowing that your short time here on this earth has been well spent, and that it mattered.
— James C. Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. 
— Zig Ziglar
The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
— James C. Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents. 
— Alexandre Dumas
We have not noticed how fast the rest has risen. Most of the industrialized world--and a good part of the nonindustrialized world as well--has better cell phone service than the United States. Broadband is faster and cheaper across the industrial world, from Canada to France to Japan, and the United States now stands sixteenth in the world in broadband penetration per capita. Americans are constantly told by their politicians that the only thing we have to learn from other countries' health care systems is to be thankful for ours. Most Americans ignore the fact that a third of the country's public schools are totally dysfunctional (because their children go to the other two-thirds). The American litigation system is now routinely referred to as a huge cost to doing business, but no one dares propose any reform of it. Our mortgage deduction for housing costs a staggering $80 billion a year, and we are told it is crucial to support home ownership, except that Margaret Thatcher eliminated it in Britain, and yet that country has the same rate of home ownership as the United States. We rarely look around and notice other options and alternatives, convinced that "we're number one.
— Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World
Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise
— Ted Turner
The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order ... ought never to be adopted, till after having been long and carefully examined ... with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men ... who have generally an interest to deceive and even oppress the public
— Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Volume 1 of 2
I don't know where we should take this company, but I do know that if I start with the right people, ask them the right questions, and engage them in vigorous debate, we will find a way to make this company great.
— James C. Collins
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
— Richard Branson
Good brands reflect the histories of the time and the group of people that made them. They can not be copied. They can not be recycled.
— Richard Branson, Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur
I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!
— Jay-Z
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship...the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
— Peter F. Drucker
My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a country, to leave it to the Americans to make money from a great British invention. I appeal to the children of this country and to their Potter-fiend parents to write to Warner Bros and Universal, and perhaps, even, to the great J K herself. Bring Harry home to Britain—and if you want a site with less rainfall than Rome, with excellent public transport, and strong connections to Harry Potter, I have just the place.
— Boris Johnson
Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press
— Warren Buffett
A pickpocket is obviously a champion of private enterprise. But it would perhaps be an exaggeration to say that a pickpocket is a champion of private property. The point about Capitalism and Commercialism, as conducted of late, is that they have really preached the extension of business rather than the preservation of belongings; and have at best tried to disguise the pickpocket with some of the virtues of the pirate.
— G.K. Chesterton, The Outline of Sanity
Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I've done from the outset. More than any other element, fun is the secret of Virgin's success. I am aware that the ideas of business as being fun and creative goes right against the grain of convention, and it's certainly not how the they teach it at some of those business schools, where business means hard grind and lots of 'discounted cash flows' and net' present values'.
— Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
There’s not a chance we’ll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability.
— John Miller, QBQ: The Question Behind The Question
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
— Henry Ford
Instead of freaking out about these constraints, embrace them. Let them guide you. Constraints drive innovation and force focus. Instead of trying to remove them, use them to your advantage.
— 37 Signals, Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Web Application
I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.
— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
My advice was to start a policy of making reversible decisions before anyone left the meeting or the office. In a startup, it doesn’t matter if you’re 100 percent right 100 percent of the time. What matters is having forward momentum and a tight fact-based data/metrics feedback loop to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions. That’s why startups are agile. By the time a big company gets the committee to organize the subcommittee to pick a meeting date, your startup could have made 20 decisions, reversed five of them and implemented the fifteen that worked.
— Steven Gary Blank, The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Startups That Win
Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.
— Conrad Hilton
In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.
— Warren Buffett
I built them what they wanted and I made a profit off of it. Now they call me a god...What fools these mortals be.
— Benjamin R.  Smith, Atlas
The best way to engage honestly with the marketplace via Twitter is to never use the words "engage," "honestly," or "marketplace.
— Jeffrey Zeldman
In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.
— Owen Felltham
Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.
— John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.**(emphasis by author)[2002] p.25f
— Gary Hamel, Leading the Revolution: How to Thrive in Turbulent Times by Making Innovation a Way of Life
No secrecy, no business.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
The truth is that banks are the last feudal kingdoms, their rulers omnipotent, divine warlords. Their key lieutenants are 'ronin' (wandering mercenary samurai) who roam financial markets ready to ally themselves to any warlord for a share of plunder. This is not the place to apply the latest management theory.
— Satyajit Das, Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives
THE ORGANIC FOODS MYTHA few decades ago, a woman tried to sue a butter company that had printed the word 'LITE' on its product's packaging. She claimed to have gained so much weight from eating the butter, even though it was labeled as being 'LITE'. In court, the lawyer representing the butter company simply held up the container of butter and said to the judge, "My client did not lie. The container is indeed 'light in weight'. The woman lost the case.In a marketing class in college, we were assigned this case study to show us that 'puffery' is legal. This means that you can deceptively use words with double meanings to sell a product, even though they could mislead customers into thinking your words mean something different. I am using this example to touch upon the myth of organic foods. If I was a lawyer representing a company that had labeled its oranges as being organic, and a man was suing my client because he found out that the oranges were being sprayed with toxins, my defense opening statement would be very simple: "If it's not plastic or metallic, it's organic."Most products labeled as being organic are not really organic. This is the truth. You pay premium prices for products you think are grown without chemicals, but most products are. If an apple is labeled as being organic, it could mean two things. Either the apple tree itself is free from chemicals, or just the soil. One or the other, but rarely both. The truth is, the word 'organic' can mean many things, and taking a farmer to court would be difficult if you found out his fruits were indeed sprayed with pesticides. After all, all organisms on earth are scientifically labeled as being organic, unless they are made of plastic or metal. The word 'organic' comes from the word 'organism', meaning something that is, or once was, living and breathing air, water and sunlight.So, the next time you stroll through your local supermarket and see brown pears that are labeled as being organic, know that they could have been third-rate fare sourced from the last day of a weekend market, and have been re-labeled to be sold to a gullible crowd for a premium price. I have a friend who thinks that organic foods have to look beat up and deformed because the use of chemicals is what makes them look perfect and flawless. This is not true. Chemical-free foods can look perfect if grown in your backyard. If you go to jungles or forests untouched by man, you will see fruit and vegetables that look like they sprouted from trees from Heaven. So be cautious the next time you buy anything labeled as 'organic'. Unless you personally know the farmer or the company selling the products, don't trust what you read. You, me, and everything on land and sea are organic.Suzy Kassem,Truth Is Crying
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Apparently, sir you Chinese are far ahead of us in every respect, except that you don’t have entrepreneurs. And our nation, though it has no drinking water, electricity, sewage system, public transportation, sense of hygiene, discipline, courtesy, or punctuality, ‘’does’’ have entrepreneurs. Thousands and thousands of them. Especially in the field of technology. And these entrepreneurs—"we" entrepreneurs—have set up all these outsourcing companies that virtually run America now.
— Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil---the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
— William George Jordan
Every successful business (1) creates or provides something of value that (2) other people want or need (3) at a price they're willing to pay, in a way that (4) satisfies the purchaser's needs and expectations and (5) provides the business sufficient revenue to make it worthwhile for the owners to continue operation.
— Josh Kaufman, The Personal MBA: A World-Class Business Education in a Single Volume
...[D]ivision of labor, in my mind, is one of the dangers of work-based technology. Modern IT infrastructure allows us to break projects into very small, discrete parts and assign each person to do only one of the many parts. In so doing, companies run the risk of taking away employees' sense of the big picture, purpose, and sense of completion.
— Dan Ariely, The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake
— Meg Whitman
People have within their own hands the tools to fashion their own destiny.
— Murray D. Lincoln, Vice President in Charge of Revolution
The most important thing in business is a persona, Nico,' he was fond of saying. 'People want to know immediately what they're dealing with. And when they think about you, you've got to stand out in their minds--like one of those characters in a novel.
— Candace Bushnell, Lipstick Jungle
International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.
— Alexander McCall Smith, Love Over Scotland
An entrepreneur without funding is a musician without an instrument.
— Robert A. Rice Jr.
Anyone who likes or hates Dana White should take a look at this.
— June White, Dana White, King of MMA
We designed Google to be the kind of place where the kind of people we wanted to work here would work for free.- Urs Hölzle
— Steven Levy, In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Intelligent men never do a business
—  only a fool kills his own beautiful instincts for the sake of a word profit.
Social media allows us to behave in ways that we are hardwired for in the first place - as humans. We can get frank recommendations from other humans instead of from faceless companies.
— Francois Gossieaux, The Hyper-Social Organization: Eclipse Your Competition by Leveraging Social Media
...After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world. I am strongly of the opinion that the great majority of people will always find these are the moving impulses of our life. But it is only those who do not understand our people, who believe that our national life is entirely absorbed by material motives. We make no concealment of the fact that we want wealth, but there are many other things that we want much more. We want peace and honor, and that charity which is so strong an element of all civilization. The chief ideal of the American people is idealism.
— Calvin Coolidge
The goal of management is to remove obstacles.
— Paul Orfalea, Copy This!: Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic who Turned a Bright Idea Into One of America's Best Companies
If it was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbroker's do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people whom you come in contact everyday.
— Orison Swett Marden
What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organisations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work, every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you overorganize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness — they cannot work and their civilization collapses.
— Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
Every telecomm company is as big a corporate welfare bum as you could ask for. Try to imagine what it would cost at market rates to go around to every house in every town in every country and pay for the right to block traffic and dig up roads and erect poles and string wires and pierce every home with cabling. The regulatory fiat that allows these companies to get their networks up and running is worth hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of dollars.If phone companies want to operate in the “free market,” then let them: the FCC could give them 60 days to get all their rotten copper out of our dirt, or we’ll buy it from them at the going scrappage rates. Then, let’s hold an auction for the right to be the next big telecomm company, on one condition: in exchange for using the public’s rights-of-way, you have to agree to connect us to the people we want to talk to, and vice-versa, as quickly and efficiently as you can.
— Cory Doctorow, Context: Further Selected Essays on Productivity, Creativity, Parenting, and Politics in the 21st Century
What's Management up to?" I whispered to Bennett."My guess is a new acronym," he whispered. "Departmental Unification Management Business." He wrote down the ltters on his legal pad. "D.U.M.B.
— Connie Willis, Bellwether
At the heart of excessive individualism is a broken heart
— Robert Holden, Success Intelligence
The virtues of free enterprise can become distorted by greed & delusion.
— Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
Like any other tool for facilitating the completion of a questionable task, rewards offer a "how" answer to what is really a "why" question.
— Alfie Kohn, Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes
Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there’s no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he’s lying, and you’re being taken.
— Mike Stackpole
A good golfer’s métier is his or her golfing skill.A great golfer’s métier is his or her golfing skill, coupled with the mastery of good sportsmanship, rendering him or her an ambassador for the sport.
— Lorii Myers, Targeting Success, Develop the Right Business Attitude to be Successful in the Workplace
Buffett's uncommon urge to chronicle made him a unique character in American life, not only a great capitalist but the Great Explainer of American capitalism. He taught a generation how to think about business, and he showed that securities were not just tokens like the Monopoly flatiron, and that investing need not be a game of chance. It was also a logical, commonsensical enterprise, like the tangible businesses beneath. He stripped Wall Street of its mystery and rejoined it to Main Street -- a mythical or disappearing place, perhaps, but one that is comprehensible to the ordinary American.
— Roger Lowenstein, Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
Some PR is about getting information about a great product or thingy out to the people who would enjoy it, while other PR is about creating a web of lies that conceals the fact that your company harnesses the energy produced by rape and uses it to make a chemical that kills forests for fun. Either way, you're going to need it.
— Eugene Mirman, The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life
More importantly, our software worked. I don't just mean that it didn't bump, or that it performed according to the written specifications, or that it was efficient in producing reports. It really worked
— Eliyahu M. Goldratt, The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
I may not be the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick the smartest people to do business with and size them up very fast.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
In the business world, there is no gray. Either you are black, or you are white-washed.
— Sameer Kamat, Business Doctors: Management Consulting Gone Wild
Make something people want and sell that, or be someone people need and sell you.
— Ryan Lilly
I don,t just want success for my self ,I want my success to benefit others .Osman Gulum
— Osman Gulum, Climbing Mountains
It is a matter of life and death for us
—  for the lead we gain by day on ships and railways is lost each night.
What I don't get about "traditional publishing" is that an author creates a work that they think is good enough to be published. They then have to spend their valuable time begging others to exploit them to point where they end up with a 5% stake in THEIR business. What kind of a screwed of business model is that?
— David  Nicol
We’re all somebody’s prospect
—  we’re all somebody’s customer.
Business is all about solving people's problems - at a profit.
— Paul Marsden
We had all opted to take City's financial reporting course work, which, in theory, meant we wanted to write about stock prices and corporate takeovers. That, of course, was a joke. No one still in their twenties, and broke, goes into journalism to write about money—a subject in which they still have zero practical experience.
— Chris Ayres, War Reporting for Cowards
Focusing on Earning the Right will have an incredible effect on the success of every single sales call that you will make from this day on.
— Chris     Murray, Selling with EASE: The Four Step Sales Cycle Found in Every Successful Business Transaction
Think about it: if someone had found a way to manipulate human choice and free will – if someone actually had that kind of power – wouldn’t it be a tad surprising if they then decided to share their secret with the masses in a book for $20? Not to mention how it would be just very slightly unethical.
— Chris     Murray, Selling with EASE: The Four Step Sales Cycle Found in Every Successful Business Transaction
Last month we had to sit through a presentation on eliminating redundancy, and it was a bunch of Power Point slides, plus a guy reading out what was on the slides, and then he gave us all hard copies. I don’t understand these things.
— Max Barry, Company
If you will look about you (which most people won't do)," says Sergeant Cuff, "you will see that the nature of a man's tastes is, most times, as opposite as possible to the nature of a man's business.
— Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
There are stories — legends, really — of the “steady job.” Old-timers gather graduates around the flickering light of a computer monitor and tell stories of how the company used to be, back when a job was for life, not just for the business cycle. … The graduates snicker. A steady job! They’ve never heard of such a thing.
— Max Barry, Company
The Business of Our Firm is Business"-Donald W. Hudspeth from:"The Business of America is Business"-Calvin Coolidge
— Calvin Coolidge
Make sure your business is creating a service experience so good that it demands loyalty.
— Steve Maraboli
Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.
— P.T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting
Sir Gerald Moore: I was at dinner last evening, and halfway through the pudding, this four-year-old child came alone, dragging a little toy cart. And on the cart was a fresh turd. Her own, I suppose. The parents just shook their heads and smiled. I've made a big investment in you, Peter. Time and money, and it's not working. Now, I could just shake my head and smile. But in my house, when a turd appears, we throw it out. We dispose of it. We flush it away. We don't put it on the table and call it caviar.
— Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
All I had done was to improve on their strategy, and it was the beginning of a very important lesson in life - that anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.
— Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The mobile phone acts as a cursor to connect the digital and physical.
— Marissa Meyer
Customers are human and humans can view situations in unexpected ways.
— Marilyn Suttle
Many companies expect loyal customers without providing loyal service. This has been the visionary failure of countless corporations.
— Steve Maraboli
Listen to your customers, not your competitors.
— Joel Spolsky
Between the Great Depression and the 1970s, private business was viewed with suspicion even in most capitalist economies.Businesses were, so the story goes, seen as anti-social agents whose profit-seeking needed to be restrained for other, supposedly loftier, goals, such as justice, social harmony, protection of the weak and even national glory.
— Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
When you put yourself in the customer’s shoes and begin your dialog from there, an immediate connection develops that stems beyond basic commerce and encourages loyalty.
— Steve Maraboli
Businesses are great structures for managing big projects. It’s like trying to develop the ability to walk without developing a skeleton. Once in a blue moon, you get an octopus, but for the most part, you get skeletons. Skeletons are good shit.
— Cory Doctorow, Makers
An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.
— George Bernard Shaw
As a business leader you have to ask yourself, “Am I creating a consumer environment that is conducive to loyalty?” If the answer is no, FIX IT!
— Steve Maraboli
For the most part, the best opportunities now lie where your competitors have yet to establish themselves, not where they're already entrenched. Microsoft is struggling to adapt to that new reality.
— Paul  Allen, Idea Man
We're interested in the mass-merchandising of anything. If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them too
— Alan Sugar
A beverage of leisure is a serious business,” Shane Bowermaster was known to declare. “There can be no product of pleasure without the inverse on the end of the producer.
— Jeff Phillips, Whiskey Pike: A Bedtime Story for the Drinking Mankind.
In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.
— Paul  Allen, Idea Man
Negotation is a point of interection of common interest.
— Sukant Ratnakar, Open the Windows
Haji Ali taught me to...slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.
— Greg Mortenson, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Business is not about negotations, its about mutually finding a point of balance where both parties find their objectives meeting.
— Sukant Ratnakar, Open the Windows
I am yet to meet the idiot at whose door success arrived as a direct result of his refusal to invest in the enterprise that made him rich.
— Jonathan Wutawunashe, Fulfill Your Threats
The most radical and far-reaching solutions often need rethinking of processes and deep questioning of the status quo-and these are hard.
— Bill Price, The Best Service Is No Service: How to Liberate Your Customers from Customer Service, Keep Them Happy, and Control Costs
Thank your customer for complaining and mean it. Most will never bother to complain. They'll just walk away.
— Marilyn Suttle
Your customers are responsible for your company’s reason for existing.
— Marilyn Suttle
Delegating your accountabilities is abdication
— Michael E. Gerber
Even your most loyal customers always have a choice about where to take their business.
— Marilyn Suttle, Who's Your Gladys?: How to Turn Even the Most Difficult Customer Into Your Biggest Fan
Make your customers comfortable and they will give you their lives.
— Paul Orfalea, Copy This!: Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic who Turned a Bright Idea Into One of America's Best Companies
After each customer interaction, notice if you gave them a “happy to see you” kind of experience.
— Marilyn Suttle
How you think about your customers influences how you respond to them.
— Marilyn Suttle
Learning is about seeing things froma a different perspective. My role is to help people improve their vision
— Bob Selden
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up. My idea was: Enjoy baking, sell your bread, people like it, sell more. Keep the bakery going because you're making good food and people are happy.
— Ian Mackaye
If you take the approach of “earning” your customers’ business every day and treating them well, they’re less likely to try someone else.
— Marilyn Suttle
Cater to your customers’ lifestyles. It will create instant rapport and a lasting sense of “I belong here.
— Marilyn Suttle
The idea of finding value in what people are willing to pay to get rid of it one of the fundamental backbones of ecocapitalism, as I think of it now.
— Tom Szaky, Revolution in a Bottle: How TerraCycle Is Redefining Green Business
Today, brands are not the preserve of marketing department. Brands are too important to be left to the marketing department - or any other 'department,' come to that. Organizational ghettoes do not create vibrant world-changing brands.
— Thomas Gad
All the nut eaters and food faddists I have ever known, died early after a long period of senile decay - Winston Churchill
— Stuart Finlay, What Churchill Would Do
He who gives back at first repulse and without striking the second blow, despairs success, has never been, is not, and never will be, a hero in love, war or business. - Frederick Tudor
— Gavin Weightman, The Frozen Water Trade
In looking at waste as an entirely modern, man-made idea, I stopped viewing garbage as garbage and instead slowly started to see it as a commodity.
— Tom Szaky, Revolution in a Bottle: How TerraCycle Is Redefining Green Business
That's the positive aspect of trade I suppose. The world gets stirred up together. That's about as much as I have to say for it.
— Isabel Hoving, The Dream Merchant
Any good business person applies financial discipline to everything they do. The movie business is and should be no different; I don't believe you have to sacrifice creativity to have business success. To the contrary, great art requires discipline.
— Paula Wagner