Economic Compendium (eBook)

Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different. Michael Porter

Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity. -Michael Porter

Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented. - Michael Porter

If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful. - Michael Porter

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough – Joseph E. Levine

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity – Charles Dickens

I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages – Robert Bosch

For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few.  Here are the choices most of us face in such a system:  Get bitter or get busy – Bill O’ Reilly, about capitalism

”To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.” --Douglas Adams

”Integrity has no need of rules.” --Albert Camus

”Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.” --Mary Kay Ash

”Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.” --Oprah Winfrey

”The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

”A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.” --Denis Waitley

”The highest compact we can make with our fellow is, - 'Let there be truth between us two forever more.'" --Ralph Waldo Emerson

”Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” --Thomas Jefferson

” In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.” --Ralph Waldo Emerson

”The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.” --Brian Tracy

”Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.” --Charles Simmons

”Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.” —Walter Anderson

”Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.” --John D. MacDonald

”Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.” --Ayn Rand

Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor. -John Ciardi

Why join the navy if you can be a pirate? -Steve Jobs

The problem with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat. -Lilly Tomlin

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. -Vidal Sassoon
 

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more. -Oscar Wilde

Don’t corner something meaner than you. -Old West saying

A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.

She works well when under constant supervision and cornered like a rat in a trap.

She should go far. The sooner she starts, the better.

The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind. -Joseph Stilwell

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders. -Sloan Wilson

Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it. -Andrew Young

There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it? -Kin Hubbard

There’s no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting. -David Letterman

Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats. -Howard Aiken

If it’s stupid but works, it isn’t stupid. If work is so terrific, why do they have to pay you to do it? There’s an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. -Peter Drucker

Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties. -Doug Larson

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. -Winston Churchill

A budget tells us what we can’t afford, but it doesn’t keep us from buying it. -William Feather

If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars. -J. Paul Getty

The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you. -Bette Midler

A company is known by the people it keeps.At some time in the lifecycle of every organization, its ability to succeed in spite of itself runs out. Money can’t buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy. Spike Milligan

If you would like to know the value of money, try to borrow some. -Benjamin Franklin

If not controlled, work will flow to the competent man until he submerges. If you don’t know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route. -Malcolm S. Forbes

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one. Oscar Wilde

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there’s no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities. -Les Claypool

Beware of any enterprise requiring new clothes. Henry Thoreau

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services. -Henry Ford

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure. -Joseph Heller

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. -Earl Wilson

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. -Napoleon Bonaparte

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. -Josh Billings

There’s nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague. -Alan Clark

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. -Franklin D. Roosevelt

Make sure you have a vice president in charge of your revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues. -David Ogilvy

A consultant is someone who takes the watch off your wrist and tells you the time.An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame.Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.For maximum attention, nothing beats a good mistake.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. -Bertrand Russell

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.- Dean Acheson

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.- Joseph Addison

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.- Amos Bronson Alcott

In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.

- Wayne Allard

A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

- Jack Anderson

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.

- Tom Arnold

After being in the business for such a long time, I've done everything but rodeo and porno.

- Beatrice Arthur

Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth.

- James Randolph Adams

I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.

- Gennaro Anguilo

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

- Richard Bach

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

- Walter Bagehot

I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety...