Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain

Yourself, Find, Side

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

Hope, Important, Trying

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Enemy, Until, Succeed

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
William Feather

Keep, Budget, Afford

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Steve Jobs

Best, Mistakes, Sometimes

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Adam Smith

Expect, Interest, Dinner

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Confucius

Superior, Sell, Inferior

All lasting business is built on friendship.
Alfred A. Montapert

Friendship, Business, Lasting

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Thomas A. Edison

Trying, Hell, Here

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
Sam Walton

Money, Fire, Down

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill

Person, After, Effort

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell

Failure, Hard, Success

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Albert Einstein

Understand, Tax, Income

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
Stephen Covey

Too, Perfect, Cannot

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Wind, Sailing, Favorable

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Henry R. Luce

Future, Business, Exercise

I want to put a ding in the universe.
Steve Jobs

Put, Universe

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Andrew Carnegie

Best, Hard, May

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
Tim Berners-Lee

True, Come, Lost

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Laurence J. Peter

Today, Tomorrow, Happen

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
Peter Drucker

Money, Business, Defined

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas A. Edison

Mean, Useless, Planned

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

Must, Around, Business

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce

Without, Individual, Profit

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.
Colin Powell