William Feather

"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."

Henry Ford

"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

"A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused."

Dale Dauten

"About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends."

Herbert Hoover

"Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror."

Al Boliska

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

Laurence J. Peter

"An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's."

Will Rogers

"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

"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

"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

"Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness."

Thomas Carlyle

"Business is a combination of war and sport."

Andre Maurois

"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

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

Peter F. Drucker

"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."

Robert Frost

"Cannibals prefer those who have no spines."

Stanislaw Lem

"Carpe per diem - seize the check."

Robin Williams

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

Ambrose Bierce

"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

"Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile."

Gary Ryan Blair