A List of Business Quotations

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I have 100 billion dollars... You realize I could spend 3 million dollars a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime. Tell you what-I'll buy your right arm for a million dollars. I give you a million bucks, and I get to sever your arm right here.
-Bill Gates

Cheap, fast, or good - choose two.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
-Will Rogers

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Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
-Peter F. Drucker

My son is now an "entrepreneur." That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
-Ted Turner

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
-Donald Trump

Expansion means complexity; and complexity decay.

Change is inevitable; it's our job to exploit it.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
-Steve Jobs

Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers.
-Michael Dell

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
-Donald Trump

You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.
-Rupert Murdoch

Cheap prices are only cheap if your time has no value.