2. There is less to fear from outside competition than from inside inefficiency, discourtesy and bad service.
3. If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there? - Robert Townsend
5. If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. - Katharine Hepburn
6. If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. - Anita Roddick
7. The temptation of business is always to feed yesterday and starve tomorrow. - Peter Drucker
8. The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year. - John Foster Dulles
9. If you are failing to plan, you are planning to fail. - Tariq Siddique
10. Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. - Oscar Wilde
13. Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service, by the idea that "he profits most who serves best," and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying. - B. F. Harris
14. The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office. - Robert Frost
15. Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. - Robert Louis Stevenson
16. Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. Theodore Roosevelt
17. My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. - Abraham Lincoln