Quotes for business

Ocean

2011-11-25T16:59:00.000+01:00

You can never cross the ocean
unless you have the courage
to lose sight of the shore

quote by Christopher Columbus

Quality

2011-10-25T11:06:00.002+02:00

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

quote by Henry Ford

Make a difference ?

2011-09-04T21:23:00.000+02:00

There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world;

those who are afraid to try,

and those who are afraid you will succeed...

Quote by Ray Goforth

Listen

2011-08-04T17:01:00.002+02:00

Nature gave us one tongue and two ears

so we could hear twice as much as we speak.

quote by Epictetus

The way you'd like to be

2011-07-19T17:42:00.001+02:00

Act the way you'd like to be
and soon you'll be the way you act

Quote by Leonard Cohen

Greener grass at the other side

2011-07-18T17:38:00.000+02:00

When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence,
it may be that they take better care of it there.

Quote by Cecil Selig

Courage

2011-07-15T10:55:00.002+02:00

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare,
it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Quote by Seneca

Experience

2011-07-06T19:06:00.000+02:00

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first,
the lesson afterwards.

Quote by Vernon Law

Respect

2011-07-05T19:02:00.006+02:00

You can stand tall without standing on someone.
You can be a victor without having victims.

Quote by Harriet Woods

Perfection

2011-07-04T19:01:00.002+02:00

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add,
but when there is nothing left to take away.

Quote by Antoine de Saint Exupery

A real friend

2011-06-21T09:47:00.000+02:00

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out

quote by Walter Winchell

No

2011-06-07T08:58:00.000+02:00

A dishonest yes is a no to yourself

Quote by Byron Katie

Stretched mind

2011-05-24T16:50:00.003+02:00

A mind that is stretched to a new idea will never return to its original dimension

quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Information overload

2011-05-16T15:00:00.002+02:00

It's not information overload. It's filter failure.

quote by Clay Shirky

Tax and mariage

2011-04-14T15:54:00.000+02:00

Nothing makes a man and wife feel closer, these days, than a joint tax return.

Quote by Gil Stern

Tax audit

2011-04-12T08:29:00.000+02:00

The Opera reminds me of my tax audit.
It was in a language I didn't understand.
And it ended in tragedy…

quote by Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins

Tax neurosis

2011-02-25T08:52:00.000+01:00

Psychiatrist to tax accountant:
"We both treat the same neurosis: what to declare and what to hide"…

Quote by Patrice Leconte and Jerome Tonnerre - Intimate Strangers

Trust and betrayal

2011-02-05T18:16:00.000+01:00

If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault;
if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.

Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt

Failure ?

2011-02-02T18:12:00.001+01:00

I have not failed.
I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Quote by Thomas A. Edison

The present

2011-01-30T18:07:00.000+01:00

Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That's why we call it 'The Present'."

Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt

Authenticity

2011-01-28T18:04:00.000+01:00

Be yourself;
everyone else is already taken.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Silence

2011-01-27T18:03:00.002+01:00

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool
than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Quote by Abraham Lincoln

Best

2010-12-27T11:40:00.002+01:00

I am easily satisfied with the very best

Quote by Winston Churchill

Mistake

2010-12-06T12:44:00.002+01:00

When you make a mistake, think:
"that was exactly what I needed to know"

quote by Bolton

Discovery

2010-11-24T14:15:00.000+01:00

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance,
it is the illusion of knowledge

Quote by Daniel Boorstin

Planning

2010-11-15T09:15:00.002+01:00

Plans are worth nothing
Planning is worth everything

Quote by Eisenhower

Tax

2010-11-10T10:52:00.000+01:00

The taxing authority is an uninvited party to all contracts.

Quote by Myron S. Scholes

Middle of the road

2010-11-09T08:33:00.003+01:00

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road.
They get run over.

quote by Aneurin Bevan

Complexity

2010-11-07T12:44:00.001+01:00

Making the simple complicated is commonplace;
making the complicated simple, awesomely simple,
that's creativity…

Quote by Charles Mingus

Sell your soul to the devil

2010-11-05T11:50:00.000+01:00

If you sell your soul to the devil,
do you need a receipt for tax purposes?

Quote by Mark Russel

Imagination

2010-11-05T09:37:00.001+01:00

I saw the angel in the marble
and I curved until I set him free

Quote by Michelangelo

Future

2010-11-03T09:35:00.002+01:00

My interest is in the future
because I am going to spend the rest of my life there

quote by Charles Kettering

Failure

2010-10-30T09:31:00.003+02:00

The thing we call failure
is not the falling down
but the staying down

quote by Mary Pickford

Secret of success

2010-10-27T09:27:00.003+02:00

The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well

quote by John D. Rockefeller

The critic and the artist

2010-10-20T08:58:00.001+02:00

The critic has to educate the public;
the artist has to educate the critic…

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Life

2010-10-02T08:13:00.001+02:00

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards

Quote by Sören Kierkegaard

The power of the customer

2010-09-30T09:14:00.001+02:00

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.

Quote by Sam Walton

Achievement

2010-09-29T09:06:00.002+02:00

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?

Quote by Larry Flint

Practical

2010-09-27T08:36:00.002+02:00

There is nothing so practical as a good theory

Quote by Kurt Lewin

Life is hard

2010-07-02T08:27:00.002+02:00

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,'
I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?...

Quote by Sydney J. Harris

Turtle

2010-06-16T13:28:00.001+02:00

Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

quote by Lou Gerstner

Hills to climb

2010-06-01T10:21:00.002+02:00

After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb…

Quote by Nelson Mandela

Government

2010-04-29T18:37:00.001+02:00

It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.

Quote by Will Rogers

Blame

2010-04-26T18:33:00.000+02:00

The man who smiles when things go wrong
has thought of someone to blame it on.

quote by Robert Bloch

Income tax

2010-04-01T11:46:00.000+02:00

The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.

Quote by Lord Thomas R. Dewar

Lawyers

2010-03-30T17:01:00.000+02:00

It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers.
Some of it might not be true.

quote by Gerald F. Lieberman

Creation and destruction

2010-03-29T14:57:00.001+02:00

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

quote by Pablo Picasso

(thanks Steven Michiels)

Power of the lawyer

2010-03-25T16:57:00.000+01:00

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

quote by Jeremy Bentham

Heaven and hell

2010-03-23T16:45:00.000+01:00

Heaven is where the police are British, the mechanics German, the cooks are French, the lovers Italian, and all is organize by the Swiss.
Hell is where the police are German, the mechanics are French, the cooks are British, the lovers are Swiss, and it's all organized by the Italians

Quote by Eliane Kirchner

Forgiveness

2010-03-21T16:48:00.000+01:00

I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way.
So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.

Unknown

Telephone

2010-03-21T16:43:00.002+01:00

Utility is when you have one telephone,
luxury is when you have two,
and paradise is when you have none

Unknown

Failure

2010-02-28T12:06:00.000+01:00

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again more intelligently

quote by Henri Ford

Attitude

2010-02-26T12:04:00.001+01:00

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character

quote by Albert Einstein

Dream

2010-01-13T08:45:00.002+01:00

A dream you dream alone is only a dream
A dream you dream together is reality

quote by John Lennon

Change

2010-01-12T13:11:00.000+01:00

If you want to make enemies
try to change something

quote by Woodrow Wilson

Einstein on action and initiative

2010-01-08T13:06:00.000+01:00

The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm
but because of those who look at it without doing anything

quote by Albert Einstein

Anger

2010-01-06T13:03:00.000+01:00

How more grievous are the consequences of anger
than the causes of it

quote by Marcus Aurelius

Action

2010-01-04T13:00:00.001+01:00

Think like a man of action
Act like a man of thought

quote by Henri Bergson

Advice

2010-01-02T13:02:00.001+01:00

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't

quote by Erica Jong

Adventure

2010-01-02T12:59:00.000+01:00

Adventure is just bad planning

quote by Roald Amundsen

Lite

2010-01-02T12:57:00.001+01:00

Introducing "Lite"
The new way to spell "Light", but with 20% fewer letters

quote by Jerry Seinfeld

Serendipity

2009-12-13T13:28:00.001+01:00

Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter.
quote by Julius Comroe Jr.

Good and excellent

2009-09-29T08:58:00.001+02:00

The difference between good and excellent: details

Happiness and action

2009-09-20T11:18:00.000+02:00

Action may not always bring happiness,
but there is no happiness without action…

quote by Benjamin Disraeli, former British prime minister

The illiterate of the 21st century

2009-09-18T18:11:00.000+02:00

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who
cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn
and relearn.

Quote by Alvin Toffler

Learn faster

2009-09-16T18:08:00.002+02:00

The ability to learn faster than your
competitors may be the only
sustainable competitive advantage.

Quote by Arie De Geus/Shell

How far ?

2009-08-17T09:21:00.000+02:00

Only those who will risk going too far
can possibly find out how far one can go

Quote by T.S. Elliot

Live and learn

2009-08-15T09:19:00.000+02:00

Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.

Quote by Mahatma Ghandi

Leadership

2009-08-13T09:17:00.000+02:00

If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more,
you are a leader.

quote by John Quincy Adams

Reputation

2009-08-12T08:40:00.002+02:00

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.
If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Quote by Warren Buffet

Apology

2009-08-12T08:37:00.001+02:00

Never ruin an apology with an excuse

quote by Kimberly Johnson

Alcohol

2009-07-14T15:55:00.000+02:00

God only created alcohol
to prevent the Irish from ruling the world.

Experience

2009-06-24T21:49:00.000+02:00

Experience is the comb that nature gives us
after we are bald

Belgian proverb

Our friends' help

2009-06-22T21:46:00.000+02:00

It is not so much our friends' help that helps
but the confidence of their help

quote by Epicurus

Growing old

2009-06-21T21:42:00.002+02:00

Growing old isn't so bad if you consider the alternative

quote by Maurice Chevalier

(and... "Growing old is not for sissies" by Bette Davis)

Making the news

2009-06-17T10:21:00.000+02:00

It is better to be making the news than taking it
to be an actor rather than a critic

Quote by Winston Churchill

Silence

2009-06-15T18:43:00.004+02:00

If a word is worth a coin

silence is worth two

Hebrew proverb

(seen at the banks of the Thames, London)

Nothing in life is to be feared

2009-06-15T18:37:00.000+02:00

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

quote by Marie Curie

Robbing a bank

2009-06-09T14:05:00.000+02:00

What is robbing a bank
compared to founding a bank

quote by Berthold Brecht

Experience

2009-06-07T14:01:00.002+02:00

A man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20
has wasted 30 years of his life.

quote by Mohammed Ali

Pirate

2009-06-03T09:23:00.000+02:00

It is more fun to be a pirate
than to join the navy

Quote by Steve Jobs

Being wrong

2009-06-02T14:23:00.000+02:00

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition,
there is no shame in being wrong,
only in failing to correct our mistakes.

quote by George Soros

18

2009-05-30T12:28:00.001+02:00

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

quote by Albert Einstein

Every problem has a solution

2009-05-29T09:20:00.001+02:00

Every problem has a solution
If there is no solution
It is not a problem but a fact

A man of value

2009-05-12T08:45:00.000+02:00

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value...

Quote by Albert Einstein

Helping others

2009-05-08T14:34:00.000+02:00

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his/her fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed;
never throw out anyone.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand,
you will find one at the end of each of your arms.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands; one for helping yourself,
and the other for helping others.

Poem by Audrey Hepburn

Vacancy

2009-05-04T14:29:00.000+02:00

When a man marries his mistress, he immediately creates a vacancy

quote by James Goldsmith

5 quotes by Ricky Gervais "The office"

2009-04-29T11:28:00.002+02:00

- If at first you don't succeed, remove all evidence you ever tried.
- If you treat the people around you with love and respect, they will never guess that you're trying to get them sacked.
- Never do today that which will become someone else's responsibility tomorrow.
- If work was so good, the rich would have kept more of it themselves.
- Eagles may soar high, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

Simplicity

2009-04-22T09:59:00.001+02:00

Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

quote by Sir Richard Steele

Inspire

2009-04-19T22:11:00.001+02:00

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself.
Before you can move their tears, your own must flow.
To convince them, you must yourself believe.

quote by Winston Churchill

Unforeseen

2009-04-17T21:53:00.001+02:00

We are ready for any unforeseen event which may or may not happen.

quote by George W. Bush

Creativity

2009-04-14T22:09:00.002+02:00

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties

quote by Erich Fromm

Two apples

2009-04-10T21:56:00.001+02:00

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

quote by George Bernard Shaw

Responsibility

2009-04-07T21:59:00.002+02:00

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Quote by Obama Barack

Looks like work

2009-04-04T22:06:00.002+02:00

Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

quote by Thomas Edison

Optimist & pessimist

2009-04-02T16:56:00.001+02:00

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.

quote by Chauncey Mitchell Depew

Profits & losses

2009-04-01T10:04:00.001+02:00

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

quote by Winston Churchill

Heroes

2009-03-30T09:29:00.001+02:00

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

No depression in Los Angeles - 1933

2009-03-26T18:40:00.000+01:00

Depression? We have no depression in Los Angeles; but I will admit that we are having the worst boom in many years.

quote by the president of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce when he was asked how the depression had hit Los Angeles, January 1933

Scary questions

2009-03-25T18:46:00.000+01:00

If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.

quote by Jules Winnfield, Pulp Fiction