Roman Catholic num "Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits." - THOMAS A. EDISON

"Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average person, you are just not cut out for positions at the top." - J. C. PENNEY

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more." - ERICA JONG, Writer

"I want o work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in." - ANITA RODDICK Founder and managing director, Body Shop International

"If one wants to be successful, one must think; one must think until it hurts. One must worry a problem in one's mind until it seems there cannot be another aspect of it that hasn't been considered." - LORD THOMSON former chairman, Thomson Organisation

"You see things; and you say, 'Why ?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'" - GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Irish dramatist

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing." - ABRAHAM LINCOLN

"In business, if you are persistent you normally arrive. It's the old tortoise and hare story." - NOEL LISTER Co-founder and former chief executive, MFI Furniture Group

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later." - O. G. MANDINO

"It is not the employer who pays wages; he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages." - HENRY FORD American automobile engineer and manufacturer

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." - VIDAL SASSOON, Hair Stylist

"It is the responsibility of the leadership and the management to give opportunities and put demands on people which enable them to grow as human beings in their work environment." - SIR JOHN HARVERY-JONES

"The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'." - JOHN ASHCROFT Former Chairman, Coloroll

"I believe that crisis really tends to help develop the characer of an organisation." - JOHN SCULLEY President : Apple Computer Inc.

"The secret of business is knowing something that nobody else knows." - ARISTOTLE ONASSIS Shipping Tycoom

"We should never be allowed to forget that it is the customer who, in the end, determines how many people are employed and what sort of wages companies can afford." - LORD ROBENS National Coal Board

"Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all." - ANDY WARHOL Artist

"Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight." - HENRY R. LUCE Founder, "Time" and "Fortune" magazine

"Top management must know how good or bad employees' working conditions are. They must eat in the employees' restaurants, see whether the food is well cooked, visit the washroom and lavatories. If they are not good enough for those in charge they are not good enough for anyone." - LORD SIEFF Interview, "Sunday Telegraph Magazine

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no BUSINESS to be made disagreeable.	Augustine Birrell	1850-1933, British Essayist, Liberal Politician
Patience is the most necessary quality for BUSINESS, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.	Lord Chesterfield	1694-1773, British Statesman, Author
The BUSINESS of America is BUSINESS and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism.	Calvin Coolidge	1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA
A knowledge of men is the prime secret of BUSINESS success.	Darius Ogden Mills
To succeed in BUSINESS, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that BUSINESS.	J. Paul Getty	1892-1976, American Oil Tycoon, Billionaire
They are as much for Mars, as for Mercury; as well qualified for war, as for BUSINESS.	Source Unknown
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.	Adam Smith	1723-1790, Scottish Economist
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.	Adnan Kashoggi
Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.	Alan Bond	Australian Entrepreneur
Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.	Ambrose Bierce	1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''
Quotation	Author	Author description
Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in BUSINESS. Cheat.	Ambrose Bierce	1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''
Cut your losses and let your profits run.	American Proverb	Sayings of American Origin
In BUSINESS partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.	American Proverb	Sayings of American Origin
Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.	An Wang	1920-1989, Chinese American Physicist, Founder of Wang Laboratories
Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.	Andrew Grove	American, CEO of Intel
Being good in BUSINESS is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good BUSINESS is the best art.	Andy Warhol	1930-, American Artist, Filmmaker
One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.	Anthony J. F. O'Reilly	American Businessman, CEO of Heinz Foods
The secret of BUSINESS is to know something that nobody else knows.	Aristotle Onassis	1906-1975, Turkish Born Shipping Magnate
If you don't drive your BUSINESS you will be driven out of BUSINESS.	B. C. Forbes	1880-1954, American Publisher
Don't forget until too late that the BUSINESS of life is not BUSINESS, but living.	B. C. Forbes	1880-1954, American Publisher