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“This company's best asset goes home every evening, and if we don't treat them well, they won't come back.”
~ Paul Dorf, Compensation Resources
"Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon."
~ Baron Nathan Rothschild
"An executive is someone who isn't worried about his own career, but rather the careers of those who work for him.”
~ Henry Burns
“I once knew a groveling subordinate who weekly washed his CEO’s car. Beware of such people - they are probably workplace bullies.”
~ Dr. Gary Namie, founder, Workplace Bullying Institute
“Where money floats, sharks swim.”
~ BartsBooks.com
“There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.”
~ Ben Franklin
“By 2018, the policeman won’t have to ask the speeder ‘what’s your hurry?’ His police car computer will already have told him.”
~ Mark Thompson, vice president and technical director of Telvent Farradyne
“Capital isn’t scarce. Vision is.”
~ Sam Walton
“The technology is mostly already out there. We just have to think to make it work.”
~ John Ondik, Solar Roofing Systems
“The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.”
~ Mary Kay Ash, founder Mary Kay Cosmetics
“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”
~ Peter Drucker, author, management consultant
“Keep active and always avoid falling into routine.”
~ Management consultant Doris Drucker, age 94, on keeping young.
“The music and entertainment business operates just like any other - only it’s a lot more fun.”
~ Steven Schechter, veteran practitioner of entertainment law
“It’s not what you say, but what people hear you say. A 300-pound man cannot bellow convincingly that he’s really a teddy bear.”
~ Brent Baer, management consultant
“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
~ Sigmund Freud
Truth in Advertising Award: “Please Help - I Really Need a Drink.”
~ sign held by a needy individual sitting on a Manhattan subway step
“Never let a donor check with his wife. This ancient dodge invariably lets a plum gift slip into an irretreivable chasm.”
~ Janice Alderman, professional fundraiser
“Avarice and happiness never saw each other, how then should they be acquainted?”
~ Ben Franklin
“There are a lot of companies that get fat, dumb and happy, and take their eyes off the ball and forget about serving customers.”
~ Charlie Bell, star of “Hey Charlie, Do My Job!”
“If the world speaks well of you, you’ll never need a sales force.”
~ BartsBooks
“First, find the customer’s pain. Everybody selling anything has to determine that thing the customer needs or wants most.”
~ Ed Ras, veteran sales coach and lecturer
“E-commerce is no faster, nor does it take any less work and planning to turn a profit.”
~ David Mason, founder, HMG Publishing
“He who gives money he has not earned is generous with other people’s labor.”
~ George Bernard Shaw
“Nothing so counters the unnatural acts of office work as an outside life filled with healthy activity.”
~ rehabilitation manager, Jim McCracken, “Work in Comfort”
“The fine for killing an OSHA inspector: $50,000.”
~ Original OSHA Compliance Manual
“Urban air pollution knows no justice. It does not remain some localized wound, deservedly inflicting only those who negligently fostered it.”
~ BartsBooks
“Self-made Man: a businessman with a fortune of $10 million who started off under the handicap of inheriting $1 million.”
~ Robert Tefton
“The age of the entrepreneur is ever decreasing and the technological capabilities for him are ever increasing.”
~ Lorraine Allen, president, Small Business Development Center
“Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.”
~ Ambrose Bierce
“In the end, it will be our minds, not our technology that saves us.”
~ BartsBooks
“October is a particularly dangerous month to speculate in stocks in. There are eleven others.”
~ Mark Twain
“More than Insurers or Big Pharma, America’s healthcare problem comes from the fact that we are supersized.”
~ Eric Raymond, CEO, Corporate Synergies Group
“It’s all noble and wonderful to try and save the world, but how are you going to make this venture pay?”
~ Faruq Mariquar, CEO, Nanobiz, speaking on Green Ventures
“Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.”
~ Robert Ingersoll, American statesman
“Immigrant Latinos struggle along with everyone in the family working two jobs. You call these people a drain on the economy?”
~ Dr. David Abalos, professor, Seton Hall
“What’s the fourth fastest growing job in the U.S.? Personal trainer.”
~ Kazuko Aoyagi, regional director for the World Instructor Training Schools.
“Somewhere beyond the concept of promptness, groomed hair, and business math, we need to be providing today’s students with a full work ethic for their work environment,”
~ Catherine Reeves, educator, Upper Freehold, New Jersey
“You want to grow your startup? Haunt the trade shows.”
~ David Mason, founder, HMG Publishing
“Few men can endure success. Another man’s, I mean.”
~ Mark Twain
“This American System of ours gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands.”
~ Al Capone (attributed)
“ATM’s do not provide free money. Keep a note on your calendar of the amounts withdrawn. It may frighten you into frugality.”
~ Valerie Williams, lecturer on Improving Your Credit
“The superior man understands what is right. The inferior man understands what will sell.”
~ Confucius
“When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.”
~ President Calvin Coolidge
“Sustainability is all in the mind - the minds of the researchers, the minds of the policy makers, and the minds of the power-consuming public.”
~ Victor Udo, Atlantic City Electric’s manager of business planning and research
“There are two times a man should not speculate: when he can afford it, and when he can’t.”
~ Mark Twain
“Commerce: A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.”
~ Ambrose Bierce
“Every year the people of planet Earth generate about $125 trillion worth of stuff. For 135 million of us, the answer of what to do with it has been to sell $4 billion of it on eBay.”
~ Kenneth Steiglitz, author, “eBay and Human Behavior”
“The future ain’t what it used to be.”
~ Yogi Berra
“Transit Villages will be fine. Transit Villages will be convenient. But only if, as a novelty, the trains run more than twice a day.”
~ BartsBooks
“Young puppy companies.”
~ how many big pharma executives refer to entrepreneurial biotechs seeking contracts
“Death, Divorce, Dentistry, and Public speaking are continually as people’s top four fears.”
~ Eileen Sinett, founder, Speaking That Connects.
“Our banking crisis was like “Oedipus Rex”
: you could see people making wrong decisions based on the best information they knew at the time.”
~ Anthony “Tony the Tiger” Terracciano, board chair, Sallie Mae Fund
“The real problem with this nation’s healthcare is that the system is built on consumption - not healing.”
~ John Phelan, CEO of Zweena, LLC
“Businesses are like babies - worth a lot more if undivided.”
~ Andrew Bluestone, CEO, Selective Benefits Group
“The whistleblower who has made a verifiable complaint had best become a kid glove employee for the owner’s sake.”
~ Michael Canavan, employment specialist attorney, Pepper Hamilton LLP
“Without stones, there is no arch.”
~ Marco Polo, speaking of his Chinese trading experience, 1269.
“For most Americans, time is money. The best deals are made ironbound and quick.”
~ BartsBooks
“All of us in business are somehow breaking some law somewhere. That’s why we hire lawyers.”
~ A. Cynic
“Amid this recession, it is far easier to find people of great skills whom you can pay with a percentage and a challenge that they love, rather than salary.”
~ Jerry Rovner, Rovner Consulting Group
“The toughest stockholders meeting you’ll ever face is over the family dinner table.”
~ Andrew Bluestone, CEO, Selective Benefits Group
“New businesses have thrived in a lot harsher climate than ours right now.”
~ President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1934
“I cannot think of a better climate in the last 15 years to launch a new business than right now.”
~ Drew Lipsher, partner, Greycroft, LLC
“The only thing flowing faster at business than stimulus dollars nowadays is complicating laws preventing us from using them.”
~ Bartsbooks
“Now it is our turn to dump cheap foreign goods on other nations.”
~ Joanna Savvides, former president, World Trade Center of Greater Philadelphia
“Like or not, you are always presenting yourself,”
~ Eileen Sinett, founder, Speaking That Connects
“One would be hard pressed to find any issue with the equal, unilateral support of the public, the government, and all levels of business, as going green.”
~ BartsBooks
“If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn’t be a bad thing.”
~ Peter Lynch, consultant, Fidelity Investments
“If we don’t blow each other up in wars for the last remaining unpolluted water, we might just build a technological Utopia.”
~ Leonard Sragow, entrepreneur, artist, author
“If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.”
~ Bill Gates
“The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.”
~ Bernard Baruch
“The art of doing good is, like any other business, fraught with tight cash and trials - and it needs tighter governance.”
~ Rev. Dr. DeForest Soaries
“Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.”
~ Jack Welch
“We have taken luxuries and made them necessities.”
~ Mark Twain
“Since the early 1950’s - for one fifth of our nation’s history - shopping malls have been part of the American scene.”
~ John Albright, Simon Property Group
“There’s no such thing as bad weather - only inappropriate clothing.”
~ Walter Zander
“If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 100 MPG.”
~ Bill Gates
“The holy grail of solar’s efficiency is to place it on financial par with fossil fuels. Give us ten years.”
~ Nobel Laureate chemist Dr. Alan J. Heeger
“No ingredient in the job hunt brings home the trophy as gritty persistence.”
~ Jim Deak, founder, Horizon Coaching
“The internet is the Viagra of big business.”
~ Jack Welch
“The good news is that banks are now loaning at the same, pre-recession criteria. The bad news is that your company probably can’t meet these criteria.”
~ Jim McSweeney, co-president, New Jersey Bankers Association
“The future of pharmaceutical research lies in smaller molecules and smaller companies.”
~ Les Browne, CEO of Pharmacopeia
“A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and the real one.”
~ J.P. Morgan
“After all, it doesn’t matter how efficient or thrifty you become, if you can’t treat your customers right,”
~ David Garfield, AlixPartners Consulting
“Give your heirs enough money so they will be able to do anything, but not so much that they won’t have to do anything.”
~ Andrew Carnegie
“Most of the successful people I know are the ones who do more listening than talking.”
~ Bernard Baruch
“Cloud computing is scarcely a mature industry. But when it comes of age, basement businesses can compete with giant corporations.”
~ David Soll, CTO, Omicron Consulting
“Voters in all nations are historically more than willing to cut only other peoples’ services, while saving their own.”
~ Craig Alexander, chief economist TD Bank
“Everyone loved this commercial so much, that it was 18 months before we realized that viewers never knew what AFLAC was or what the company did.”
~ Allen Yarnoff, AFLAC commerical’s developer
“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”
~ Henry Ford
“Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.”
~ Ray Kroc
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