John Cleese

"I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love."

Tiger Woods

"I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill."

Edward Appleton

"I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business."

Henry David Thoreau

"I want to put a ding in the universe."

Steve Jobs

"I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act."

Jennifer Aniston

"I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money."

Lord Acton

"If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion."

George Bernard Shaw

"If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act."

Lee Iacocca

"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them."

Jane Fonda

"If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance."

Abraham Lincoln

"If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid."

Thomas J. Watson

"If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable."

Will Rogers

"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."

J. Paul Getty

"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work."

Kahlil Gibran

"If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business."

B. C. Forbes

"If you have to forecast, forecast often."

Edgar R. Fiedler

"If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been."

Robert H. Schuller

"If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet."

Theodore White

"If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem."

J. Paul Getty

"In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing."

William Wordsworth

"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later."

Harold S. Geneen

"In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."

Benjamin Franklin

"Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results."

Scott Adams