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" Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

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" The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers. "

" The likelihood of success drops dramatically when you expand, especially in the services business. And there's a lot of capital that goes into opening another office. "

" Almost every economist agrees that the American health care system is unsustainable. Medical care is so expensive that it is busting all of our budgets - government, business, and personal. Eventually, the medical price bubble will pop. What, then, are the alternatives? "

" If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business. "

" Despite their good intentions, today's businesses are missing an opportunity to integrate social responsibility and day-to-day business objectives - to do good and make money simultaneously. "

" Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

" I dismiss personal profit and focus exclusively on people and planet. That's what I call social business: a nondividend company dedicated to solving human problems. You can go all the way, forgetting about personal profit, being single-minded about solving problems. The company makes profit, but profit stays with the company. "

" I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker. "

" Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader. "

" Good design is good business. "

Thomas J. Watson

" The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights. "

" I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice. "

" There is no greater feeling in business than building a product which impacts people's lives in a profound way. When we look around at the thousands of people who have attended Summit gatherings, it makes us smile to see the new friendships, business partnerships and philanthropic initiatives that each event produces. "

" Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment with sustainable results, and produces other positive effects such as employee motivation and improved organizational culture. "

" I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done. "

" Just the fact that I've lived more, and I'm not concerned about when I am going to get my next job anymore. This business is free-lance and it's not a steady job. Younger, I would have been more preoccupied with myself. "

" The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip. "

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

" My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. "

" Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine. "

" I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one. "

" A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful. "

" Your own business growth and success depends on many things, and along that growing path, you are going to have to concede certain responsibilities and activities - whether for your accounting, your production, or day-to-day management. "

Michael E. Gerber

" The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even narrative film is in crisis in many ways, unless it's an adventure film. "

" Education is a business - the growth business. It cultivates the growth of our learners, translates the growth of new knowledge, and builds professional growth. "

Heidi Hayes Jacobs

" 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

" My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did. "

Sanford I. Weill

" If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable. "

" Don't ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, accounting, accounting. Know your numbers. "

Tilman J. Fertitta

" The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.' "

Orison Swett Marden