"A salesman minus enthusiasm is just a clerk." - Harry F. Banks

"Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world." - Bruce Barton

"Failing organisations are usually over-managed and under-led." - Warren G. Bennis

"The rewards in business go to the man who does something with an idea." - William Benton

"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavour upon the business known as gambling." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

"CORPORATION, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

"Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

"Here's the rule for bargains - Do other men, for they would do you. That's the true business precept." - Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit

"Business? That's very simple-it's other people's money." - Alexandre Dumas, fils, La Question d'argent

"Business? That's very simple - it's other people's money." - Alexandre Dumas, fils, La Question d'argent

"Business is the salt of life." - Thomas Fuller, M. D.

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." - Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

"We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes." - Henry David Thoreau

"For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa." - Charles E. Wilson, said in testimony before a U.S. Senate hearing

"Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbour on an empty stomach." - Woodrow Wilson, speech (1912)

"Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee." - GEORGE CHAPMAN, BEN JONSON, AND JOHN MARSTON, Eastward Ho

"Here's the rule for bargains - 'Do other men, for they would do you.' That's the true business precept." - CHARLES DICKENS, Martin Chuzzlewit

"The salary of the chief executive of the large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself." - JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH, Annals of an Abiding Liberal

"He's a businessman. I'll make him an offer he can't refuse." - MARIO PUZO, The Godfather

"Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach." - WOODROW WILSON, speech (1912)

"The amount of energy spent laughing at a joke should be directly proportional to the hierarchical status of the joke teller. Big Book of Business', illustrated by Scott Adams" - Dogbert in 'Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 1991

"It is better for your career to do nothing, than to do something and attract criticism. Big Book of Business', illustrated by Scott Adams" - Dogbert in 'Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 1991

"Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information. Big Book of Business', illustrated by Scott Adams" - Dogbert in 'Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 1991

"Any change to the salary plan will result in less money for you. If they wanted to give you 'more' money, they wouldn't have to go through all the trouble of changing the plan. Big Book of Business', illustrated by Scott Adams" - Dogbert in 'Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 1991

"Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding. Big Book of Business', illustrated by Scott Adams" - Dogbert in 'Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 1991

"The nearer you are to your boss's office, the lower the quality of your assignments. Big Book of Business', illustrated by Scott Adams" - Dogbert in 'Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 1991

"The most perilous challenge you will ever face is dealing with the boss's secretary. It may be necessary to offer a live calf or a summer intern as an animal sacrifice. Big Book of Business', illustrated by Scott Adams" - Dogbert in 'Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 1991

"Sick days are the same as vacation days, but with sound effects. Big Book of Business', illustrated by Scott Adams" - Dogbert in 'Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 1991

"When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are." - Grant, R. H.

"There are four things that hold back human progress. Ignorance, stupidity, committies and accountants." - Lyall, Charles J. C.

"In science, it doesn't matter if you're wrong, as long as you're not stupid. In business, it doesn't matter if you're stupid, so long as you're not wrong." - Unknown