Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

Delay is preferable to error.

It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel’s attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life – that is to say, over 35 – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

In business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

I never called my work an ‚art‘. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from ‚the bush‘ could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Real art has been… what’s the word? Kidnapped? No, that’s not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.

It’s time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you’re rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

I don’t have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

I like working-class people, generally speaking.

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.