• I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
-Walt Disney

• I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

• For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
-H L Mencken

• A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything. -Bernard's Bingo Magazine.

• The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
-Theodore Roosevelt

• A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
-Mitch Ratliffe

• More can be learned from what works than from what fails.
-Rene Dubois

• Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
-Robert Louis Stephenson

• Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
-General George S Patton Jr

• "Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust."
-Zig Ziglar quotes

• "Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion."
-Jack Welch quotes

• "It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business"
-Mahatma Gandhi quotes

• "Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself for product failure"

• "You can't do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow"

• About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
-Herbert Hoover

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

• Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
-Tom Peters

• An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
-Fred Allen

• An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
-Will Rogers

• As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
-John Greenleaf Whittier

• Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers-six if one went to Harvard.
-Edgar R. Fiedler

• Cut your losses and let your profits run.
-American proverb

• Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
-Jonathan Swift

• Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-Albert Einstein

• If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.
-William Arthur Ward

• An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.
-Richard Bach

• Information is the seed for an idea, and only grows when it's watered.
-Heinz V. Bergen

• A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
-Charles M. Schwab

• Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
-Evan Esar

• Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
-Evan Esar

• Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
-Howard Aiken

• Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
-Herbert Hoover

• Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
-Stephen Covey

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

• Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.
-Andy Warhol

• Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
-Henry Ward Beecher

• "The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals."
- Rensis Likert

• "The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do..."
-David Joseph Schwartz

• "Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business."
- Winston Churchill