"Our first priority should be the people who work for the companies, then the customers, then the shareholders. Because if the staff are motivated then the customers will be happy, and the shareholders will then benefit through the company's success."Richard Branson |
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Business Quotes
"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work." ~ Peter Drucker
"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away." ~ Ronald Reagan
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." ~ Anne Bradstreet
"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done." ~ Andy Rooney.
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." ~ Rich Cook.
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." ~ Douglas Adams
"The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says 'Go!'- a leader says, 'Let's go!' " ~ E. M. Kelly
"Nobody wrote into the rule book of capitalism that taking a risk guarantees success" ~ Andrew Filipowski, software mogul, after losing $40 million
"I have problems thrown in fresh daily wherever I am" ~ Richard Lewis
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Contributions to Quotations:
David Shein [06], Clark Moran, Geoffrey K. Braden [05]