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A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

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

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.

A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.

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

All lasting business is built on friendship.

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

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

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

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.

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.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.

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

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

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