#business

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. ↗

— Colin Powell

#force #multiplier #optimism #perpetual

When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun! ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#business #fun #go #going #got

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#certain #death #death and taxes #except #nothing

The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#bankers #businessmen #century #consistently #disastrous

I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#business #couple #department #department store #even

When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is INSUBORDINATION. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#strategy #war #art

When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#strategy #war #art

We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives. ↗

— Robert Reich

#believe #business #conduct #government #how

Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed. ↗

— Don Rickles

#i #insurance #kid #laughed #life

I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#believe #big #businesses #creative #deepest