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We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Positive, Succeed, Demand

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
B. C. Forbes

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
William Arthur Ward

Wise, Learn, Line

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Charles Kettering

Place, High, Takes

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
Jack Welch

Change, Strength, Confusion

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

Family, Good, Job

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
Frank Lloyd Wright

House, Build, Chicken

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Walter Scott

Success, Attitude, Failure

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

Different, Ask, Five

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Arnold H. Glasow

Leadership, Before, Problem

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

Long, Others, Results

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
Mary Kay Ash

Good, Company, Keeps

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Howard Aiken

Good, Down, Worry

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
Thomas J. Watson

Success, Progress, Individual

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

Money, Beautiful, Artist

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
J. Paul Getty

Earth, Rights, Shall

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
Tom Brokaw

Easy, Difference, Buck

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
John Kenneth Galbraith

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
Andre Maurois

Fitness, Important, Leader

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
Thomas J. Watson

Nothing, Others, Himself

Carpe per diem - seize the check.
Robin Williams

Seize, Check, Per

I buy when other people are selling.
J. Paul Getty

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

Money, Until, Group

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
Ted Turner

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
Michael Korda

Else, Succeed, While

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