Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Thomas Higginson

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running. If you stand still, they will swallow you.
Victor Kiam, US businessman

The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
Peter Drucker, management guru

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
Woodrow Wilson, US president

We are not a global business. We are a collection of local businesses with intense global coordination.
Percy Barnevik, Swedish global executive

Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change.
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft

Business is business; it’s not politics.
Jack Ma, Chinese internet pioneer

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison

Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.
Frank Muir

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucius

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Franklin P. Jones, American businessman

Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.
Groucho Marx

Wisdom is in the head and not in the beard.
Swedish proverb

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
Alvin Toffler

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Think global, act local.
Management edict

High expectations are the key to everything.
Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
Randall Jacobs, businessman

You can’t hit ’em if you don’t swing at ’em.
Clay W. Hamlin, salesman

It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be.
Wallace D. Wattles

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Sun Tzu

Accept everything just the way it is.
Miyamoto Musashi

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Karl Marx

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
Cyril Northcote Parkinson

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
Niccolo Machiavelli

It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend.
George S. Clason

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
Samuel Smiles

The successful leader must be the master of all details connected with his position.
Napoleon Hill