• Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
-Jim Ryun

• The greatest power is often simple patience.
-E. Joseph Cossman

• A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
-Albert Einstein

• The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
-Winston Churchill

• Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
-Robert Browning

• 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

• Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
-Abraham Lincoln

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

• One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
-Arnold H. Glasow

• Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.
-Scott McNealy

• Cashflow is the movement of money in and out of a business.
-Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary

• Yesterday is a cancelled cheque. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is cash.

• Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
-Don Marquis

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

• Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
-Walter Scott

• The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
-Michael Korda

• The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
-Max de Pree

• The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
-Ambrose Bierce

• The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
-Blaine Lee

• Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.
-Jimmy Stewart

• The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other
-Diogenes Laertius

• There are more fools among buyers than among sellers.
-French proverb

• When you go to buy, use your eyes not your ears.
-Czech proverb

• The buyer needs a hundred eyes; the seller but one.
-Italian proverb

• A man trying to sell a blind horse always praises its feet.
-German proverb

• A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
-Bob Hope

• Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
-Thomas Jefferson

• The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.
-Mitt Romney

• The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
-Blaine Lee

• The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
-Aristotle Onassis

• The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.
-Igor Sikorsky

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

• There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
-Adlai E. Stevenson

• No man's credit is as good as his money.
-Sinner Sermons, 1926

• If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
-Benjamin Franklin

• The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed'
-Dorothy Parker

• Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
-W. Clement Stone

• Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
-Tim Berners-Lee

• When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.
-James H. Boren

• Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
-Thomas J. Watson

• Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
–Neils Bohr

• We always plan too much and always think too little.
-Joseph Schumper

• It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning.
-Dr Graeme Edwards

• The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
-Elbert Hubbard

• The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.
-Sir William Osler

• The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
-John Maynard Keynes

• To predict the future, we need logic; but we also need faith and imagination, which can sometimes defy logic itself.
-Arthur C Clarke

• It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
-James Thurber