•“If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.”
― Claire Cook

•“Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.” 
― P.T. Barnum

•“The best way to predict your future is to create it” 
― Peter F. Drucker

•“Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.” 
― Jaachynma N.E. Agu

•“If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.” 
― John Gottman

•“If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.” 
― Darryl F. Zanuck

•“Why climb the corporate ladder when you can build an elevator in your own building?” 
― Joshua E. Leyenhorst

•“Thank your customer for complaining and mean it. Most will never bother to complain. They'll just walk away.” 
― Marilyn Suttle

•“Never venture, never win!” 
― Sun Tzu

•“Don't underestimate your worth by comparing yourself with others.” 
― Jaachynma N.E. Agu

•“If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.” 
― B. C. Forbes   

•“Look for the positive qualities in your client's negative behavior.” 
― Marilyn Suttle

•“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” 
― Mark Twain 

•“The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work ot make it better.” 
― Barbra Pletcher

•“Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.” 
― Robert H. Schuller 

•“Listen to your customers, not your competitors.” 
― Joel Spolsky

•“The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.” 
― Aristotle Onassis   

•“If you did not look after today’s business then you might as well forget about tomorrow ” 

•“There is a theory that paradigms break through on the fringe of your business before they reach the center.”

•“Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.” 
― Edgar R. Fiedler   

•“Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.” 
― Sheryl Sandberg

•“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. ” 

•“Move not unless you see an advantage;  use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.” 
― Sun Tzu

•“Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”

•“If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying.”

•“Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.”

•“Hire character.  Train skill ” 

•“Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

•“The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but
how to get old ones out.”

•“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.”

•“In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.” 

•“Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise” 
― Ted Turner

•“The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.” 
― Confucius 

•“Don't set your goals by what other people deem important.” 
― Jaachynma N.E. Agu

•“The golden rule for every business man is this: “Put yourself in your customer’s place.” 

•“In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.” 
― Owen Felltham

•“If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.” 
―Alexander Pope 

•“Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” 
― Conrad Hilton

•“When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.” 
―Robert Kiyosaki 

•“The best way to engage honestly with the marketplace via Twitter is to never use the words "engage," "honestly," or "marketplace.” 
― Jeffrey Zeldman

•“A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.” 
―William Feather 

•“If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.” 
― Seth Godin

•“The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.” 

•“Your uniqueness is your greatest strength, not how well you emulate others.” 
― Simon S. Tam

•“Do little things every day that no one else seems to want to do, be patient, and success will find you.” 
― Brandi L. Bates

•“What other people think about me is not my business.” 
―Michael J. Fox   

•“If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. ” 
― Zig Ziglar

•“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.” 
―Laurence J. Peter 

•“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” 
― Peter F. Drucker

•“When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.” 
―Ezra Pound   

•“You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.” 
― Ronald Reagan

•“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” 
―Lucius Annaeus Seneca   

•“A confident woman wears a smile and has this air of comfortability and pleasantness about her.” 
― Jaachynma N.E. Agu

•“Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.” 
―Tacitus   

•“The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.” 
― Peter F. Drucker

•“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.” 
―Warren Buffett   

•“Truth builds trust.” 
― Marilyn Suttle

•“When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.” 
―James H. Boren 

•“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” 
― Warren Buffett