Finance And Economics Quotes
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The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future. (Quote by - Norman O. Brown)
I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary. (Quote by - Kim Basinger)
You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it. (Quote by - Harold Geneen Ceo)
Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars. (Quote by - Bernard Baruch)
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. (Quote by - Kenneth H. Blanchard)
If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero. (Quote by - Alfred P. Sloan)
As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there. (Quote by - Ken Blanchard)
All mass movements avail themselves of action as a means of unification. The conflicts a mass movement seeks and incites serve not only to down its enemies but also to strip its followers of their distinct individuality and render them more soluble in the collective medium. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment. (Quote by - Harvey S. Firestone)
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony. (Quote by - William Henry Channing)
We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want. (Quote by - Laura Ashley)
American prosperity and American free enterprise are both highly unusual in the world, and we should not overlook the possibility that the two are connected. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves. (Quote by - Herbert Hoover)
We are now in the third stage of the industrial revolution. The first involved machines which extended human muscle; the second used machines to extend the human nervous system (radio, television, telephones); the third is now utilizing machines which extend the human mind-computers. About half of all service workers (43 percent of the labor force by 2000) will be involved in collecting, analyzing, synthesizing, structuring, storing, or retrieving information... By 1995, 80 percent of all management will be "knowledge workers.". (Quote by - Owen Davies)