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

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships. ~Stephen Covey

All lasting business is built on friendship. ~Alfred A. Montapert

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures. ~Tom Peters

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. ~Fred Allen

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose. ~Bill Gates

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today. ~Laurence J. Peter

An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s. ~Will Rogers

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department. ~Andrew Carnegie

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. ~Bill Gates

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. ~Dale Carnegie

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. ~Dale Carnegie