Society...Institutions...BUSINESS
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1040
“We all make the mistake of thinking about institutions, such as business, and government, as ends in themselves.” — Adlai E. Stevenson
BUSINESS, Government
1041
“Things that are bad for business are bad for the people who work for business.”
— Thomas E. Dewey
BUSINESS, Reward, Pessimism
1042
“If small business goes, big business does not have any future except to become the economic arm of a totalitarian state.” — P(hillip) D(unham) Reed
BUSINESS, Competition
1043
“Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.”
— Peter F. Drucker
BUSINESS, Innovation, Competition
1044 P
“The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.” — Aristotle Onassis
BUSINESS, Knowledge, Vision
1045
“Business is a combination of war and sport.” — Andre Maurois
BUSINESS, War & Peace, Health & Fitness
1046
“Businessmen are notable for a peculiarly stalwart character which enables them to enjoy without loss of self-reliance, the benefits of tariffs, franchises and even outright government subsidies.”
— Hermann Joseph Muller
BUSINESS, Individualism
1047
“An organization values what it dedicates its time and resources to.” — Mo(rris J.) Siegel
BUSINESS, Reward
1048
“Keep your eye on the filling station. It is the true agent of decentralization.” — Frank Lloyd Wright
BUSINESS, Sciences
1049 PH
“We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we
would be reorganized. I was to learn that later in life we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.”
— Petronious Arbiter
BUSINESS, Effectiveness
1050 H
“Corporation - An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual
responsibility.” — Ambrose Bierce
BUSINESS, Wealth
1051 PH
“A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a
corporation.” — Howard Scott
BUSINESS, Dishonesty, Law
1052
“The myth that holds that the great corporation is a puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is in fact, one of the services by which its power is perpetuated.”
— John Kenneth Galbraith
BUSINESS, Dishonesty, Authority
1053
“Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible.” — Javier Pascual Salcedo
BUSINESS, Effectiveness
1054
“No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
BUSINESS, Prudence, Effectiveness, Originality
1055 H
“If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.” — Charles F. Kettering
BUSINESS, Effectiveness, Decision Making, Originality
1056
“When many work together for a goal,
Great things may be accomplished.
It is said a lion cub was killed
By a single colony of ants.” — Saskya Pandita
BUSINESS, Personal Management
1057
“Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don’t do anything, they don’t make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.”
— Jean Giraudoux
BUSINESS, Greed
1058 A
“A man is robbed on the Stock Exchange, just as he is killed in a war, by people he never sees.”
— Alfred Capus
BUSINESS, Principles, War & Peace, Law
1059 A
“Artificial inflation of stocks must be considered a crime as serious as counterfeiting, which it
closely resembles.” — Andre Maurois
BUSINESS, Dishonesty, Greed, Law
1060
“Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expense of others.” — Franklin Delano Roosevelt
BUSINESS, Wealth, Greed, Originality
BUSINESS Cross-References
Wealth—40, 50 • Motivation—106, 114 •
Planning—164 • Courage—190-192 • Happiness—241 •
Pessimism—284-285 • Haste—362, 367 • Personal
Management—450, 453-454 • Vision—652 • Judgment—685 •
Greed—894 • Ego—928 • Principles—952 •
Conscience—981 • Leadership—1143, 1145 • Accountability—1155, 1158 •
Competition—1173, 1186, 1189, 1191, 1193-1194 • Reward—1195, 1203-1204 •
Individualism—1345-1347, 1351, 1353 • Communication—1386 •
Bores—1426
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