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Freebooter, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.
Ambrose Bierce
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
When a man says that he approves something in principal, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it in practice.
Otto von Bismarck
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Francis Bacon
I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
Zig Ziglar
Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.
Cate Blanchett
The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.
Robert Anton Wilson
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
Peter Drucker
Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.
John Cusack
Good design is good business.
Thomas J. Watson
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
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
Helen Keller
People really don’t like to hear success explained away as luck — especially successful people.
Michael Lewis
If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!
William Bernbach
We make silk purses out of silk.
Warren Buffett
Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience.
Loretta Lynn
Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.
Ernie Harwell
When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
Steve Jobs
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
Alexander Pope
I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
Izaak Walton