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"No man becomes rich unless he enriches others." — Andrew Carnegie "The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else…" — Andrew Carnegie "Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself." — Andrew Carnegie "People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity." — Andrew Carnegie "I have been insane on the subject of moneymaking all my life." — Cornelius Vanderbilt "What do I care about the law? Hain't I got the power?" — Cornelius Vanderbilt "You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I will ruin you." — Cornelius Vanderbilt "I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead." — Cornelius Vanderbilt "Whether you think you can, or you think you can't — you're right." — Henry Ford "Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success." — Henry Ford "Don't find fault, find a remedy." — Henry Ford "A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business." — Henry Ford "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." — Henry Ford "The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you're not going to stay where you are." — J.P. Morgan "A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason." — J.P. Morgan "Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further." — J.P. Morgan "I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half." — Jay Gould "I needed the good will of the legislature of four states. I formed the legislative bodies with my own money." — Jay Gould "The man who commands the money market can do almost anything." — Jay Gould "I was brought up in the school of adversity, and my motto is to never say die." — Jay Gould "I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success as the quality of perseverance." — John D. Rockefeller "The secret to success is to do the common things uncommonly well." — John D. Rockefeller "The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital." — Leland Stanford "I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's poss…" — Leland Stanford "The employer class is less in numbers, but strong in its power of combination." — Leland Stanford "The great advantage to labor arising out of cooperation is that of getting the greatest return." — Leland Stanford "Roasted pigeons do not fly into one's mouth." — Meyer Guggenheim "Each of you take one of these sticks and break it. That is what will happen if you go through life alone. Tog…" — Meyer Guggenheim "Do not be content to work for others all your life. Have a goal, a purpose in life." — Meyer Guggenheim "Own nothing, control everything." — Meyer Guggenheim "Business is a matter of human service." — Milton Hershey "Give them quality. That is the best kind of advertising." — Milton Hershey "No man owns a fortune. It owns him." — A.P. Giannini "The little fellow is the best customer in the world." — A.P. Giannini "I don't want to be rich. No man actually owns a fortune; it owns him." — A.P. Giannini "Money itch is a bad thing. I never had that trouble." — A.P. Giannini "A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm." — Charles M. Schwab "I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater eff…" — Charles M. Schwab "The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have." — Charles M. Schwab "Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves." — Charles M. Schwab "In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." — Coco Chanel "Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable." — Coco Chanel "The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud." — Coco Chanel "Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door." — Coco Chanel "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving." — Conrad Hilton "To accomplish big things, I am convinced you must first dream big dreams." — Conrad Hilton "There is a natural law, a divine law, that obliges you and me to relieve the suffering, the distressed, and t…" — Conrad Hilton "The man with the most is not always the happiest; it is the man who does the most." — Conrad Hilton "The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership." — Harvey Firestone "Capital isn't so important in business. Experience isn't so important. You can get both these things. What is…" — Harvey Firestone "I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business." — Harvey Firestone "It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed." — Harvey Firestone "There are no ugly women, only lazy ones." — Helena Rubinstein "Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit." — Helena Rubinstein "All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder." — Helena Rubinstein "I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity." — Helena Rubinstein "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." — Walt Disney "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." — Walt Disney "It's kind of fun to do the impossible." — Walt Disney "Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it." — William Randolph Hearst "Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text." — William Randolph Hearst "Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil." — William Randolph Hearst "Putting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark." — William Randolph Hearst "Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes." — David Packard "Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department." — David Packard "Revenue is vanity, margin is sanity, but cash is king." — David Packard "A company has a greater responsibility than making money for its stockholders." — David Packard "I have never been able to say who is the best driver because I believe the best has not yet been born." — Enzo Ferrari "The fact is I don't drive just to get from A to B. I enjoy feeling the car's reactions, becoming part of it." — Enzo Ferrari "I build engines and attach wheels to them." — Enzo Ferrari "What I dreamed, I willed; what I willed, I did." — Enzo Ferrari "I never dreamed about success, I worked for it." — Estee Lauder "When you stop talking, you've lost your customer." — Estee Lauder "I have never worked a day in my life without selling. If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it har…" — Estee Lauder "Wasting resources is a mortal sin at IKEA." — Ingvar Kamprad "The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights." — J. Paul Getty "If you owe the bank 100 dollars, that is your problem. If you owe the bank 100 million, that is the bank's pr…" — J. Paul Getty "To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?" — Katharine Graham "A mistake is simply another way of doing things." — Katharine Graham "To do what you are afraid to do is to guide your life by fear. How much better not to be afraid." — Katharine Graham "If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood." — Katharine Graham "If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the cu…" — Ray Kroc "The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time,…" — Ray Kroc "Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get." — Ray Kroc "There is only one boss — the customer." — Sam Walton "High expectations are the key to everything." — Sam Walton "Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures." — Sam Walton "Success is 99 percent failure." — Soichiro Honda "If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are." — Soichiro Honda "Looking back on it, my life has been one long obstacle course, with me as the chief obstacle." — Soichiro Honda "We only have one future, and it will be made of our dreams, if we have the courage to challenge convention." — Soichiro Honda "We should be about more than just selling chicken. We should be a part of our customers' lives and the commun…" — Truett Cathy "Food is essential to life; therefore, make it good." — Truett Cathy "Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget Rule No. 1." — Warren Buffett "Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful." — Warren Buffett "Price is what you pay. Value is what you get." — Warren Buffett "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it." — Warren Buffett "The best investment you can make is in yourself." — Warren Buffett "Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." — Warren Buffett "No man who owns his own house and lot can be a Communist. He has too much to do." — William Levitt "Planning is everything." — A. Alfred Taubman "In life and business, there are two cardinal sins. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the …" — Carl Icahn "Don't confuse luck with skill when judging others, and don't confuse skill with luck when judging yourself." — Carl Icahn "I make money. Nothing wrong with that. That's what I do." — Carl Icahn "Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. Me, I make money studying natural stupidity." — Carl Icahn "Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way y…" — Indra Nooyi "The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. What got you …" — Indra Nooyi "Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent." — Indra Nooyi "If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself." — Indra Nooyi "Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the …" — Indra Nooyi "Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all abou…" — Jack Welch "Change before you have to." — Jack Welch "An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competit…" — Jack Welch "If you cheapen the experience, customers know it." — Jim Sinegal "We do not pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes." — Leona Helmsley "The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams." — Oprah Winfrey "Turn your wounds into wisdom." — Oprah Winfrey "You become what you believe." — Oprah Winfrey "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." — Oprah Winfrey "Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail." — Oprah Winfrey "The cowards never started and the weak died along the way. That leaves us." — Phil Knight "Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results." — Phil Knight "There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos." — Phil Knight "Play by the rules, but be ferocious." — Phil Knight "Screw it, let's do it." — Richard Branson "Business opportunities are like buses; there's always another one coming." — Richard Branson "Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again." — Richard Branson "Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to." — Richard Branson "The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow." — Rupert Murdoch "In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts." — Rupert Murdoch "Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live off the interest." — Rupert Murdoch "We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll do it by being bold." — Rupert Murdoch "A fool with a plan can beat a genius with no plan." — T. Boone Pickens "It's fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure." — Bill Gates "Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." — Bill Gates "If you are born poor it's not your mistake, but if you die poor it's your mistake." — Bill Gates "We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that wil…" — Bill Gates "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." — Bill Gates "When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor." — Elon Musk "I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary." — Elon Musk "Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough." — Elon Musk "Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up." — Elon Musk "Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster." — Elon Musk "Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine." — Jack Ma "If you don't give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure." — Jack Ma "A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't." — Jack Ma "Customers first, employees second, shareholders third." — Jack Ma "Your brand is what other people say about you when you're not in the room." — Jeff Bezos "I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying." — Jeff Bezos "If you double the number of experiments you do per year, you're going to double your inventiveness." — Jeff Bezos "We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details." — Jeff Bezos "The conditions for greatness are the willingness to endure great pain for a long time." — Jensen Huang "If you want to do something extraordinary, don't plan for retreat." — Jensen Huang "The more you suffer, the more you will appreciate success when it comes." — Jensen Huang "I wish upon you ample doses of pain and suffering." — Jensen Huang "The biggest risk is not taking any risk." — Mark Zuckerberg "Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough." — Mark Zuckerberg "People don't care about what you say, they care about what you build." — Mark Zuckerberg "Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high." — Reed Hastings "Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid, and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right." — Reed Hastings "Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly." — Reed Hastings "Don't be afraid to change the model." — Reed Hastings "Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength." — Sara Blakely "It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable." — Sara Blakely "Embrace what you don't know, especially in the beginning, because what you don't know can become your greates…" — Sara Blakely "Stay hungry, stay foolish." — Steve Jobs "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." — Steve Jobs "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." — Steve Jobs "The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do." — Steve Jobs "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." — Steve Jobs "I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure…" — Steve Jobs