Famous quotes by Businessman

"I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more"

Linus Torvalds, Businessman

"Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all"

Linus Torvalds, Businessman

"I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works"

Linus Torvalds, Businessman

"I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly"

Linus Torvalds, Businessman

"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"Don't find fault, find a remedy"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"When a subject becomes totally obsolete, we make it a required course"

Peter Drucker, Businessman

"We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn"

Peter Drucker, Businessman

"The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity"

Peter Drucker, Businessman

"People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year"

Peter Drucker, Businessman

"My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions"

Peter Drucker, Businessman

"Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't"

Peter Drucker, Businessman

"Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers'"

Peter Drucker, Businessman

"Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"Make measurable progress in reasonable time"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"The book you don't read won't help"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

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