Integrity

A person who posesses integrity builds their reputation on the bedrock of truth and sincerity. That reputation is nurtured with daily honesty but can be destroyed by a single moment of deceit.

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.
Artemus Ward

I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp; Iknow what I want to do, but I don't know where to begin.
Stephen Bayne

The work will teach you how to do it.
Estonian proverb

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
John Paul Getty,American Industrialist (1892-1976)

Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom.
John Paul Getty,American Industrialist (1892-1976)

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
Jeff Bezos

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
Jeff Bezos

We're moving beyond the days of the developer with the rock-star complex striking off to run his own studio, only to find out that running a business is more than putting a ROBOTRON machine in the breakroom and giving employees free soda.
Augusts Game Developer Magazine
Jennifer Olson

There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
Jeff Bezos

What we want to do is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming
Jeff Bezos

Concentration is my motto � first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
Andrew Carnegie

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Andrew Carnegie

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
Andrew Carnegie

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
Andrew Carnegie

A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.
Walt Disney

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
Thomas A. Edison

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Thomas A. Edison

There's a way to do it better - find it.
Thomas A. Edison

Asking "who ought to be the boss" is like asking "who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
Henry Ford

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
Henry Ford

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
Henry Ford

There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.
Henry Ford

Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Benjamin Franklin

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin Franklin

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
Benjamin Franklin

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
Bill Gates

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
Ray Kroc, Founder of McDonald's

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.
Ray Kroc, Founder of McDonald's

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.
Alfred P. Sloan

High expectations are the key to everything.
Sam Walton

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Vincent T. Lombardi

To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight
William Shakespeare

Continue to invest in your personal development. Expand your occupational horizons by constant study....Look to your present job as a stepping-stone along your career path. Take time to think. The dimensions of most jobs are constrained only by the mind of the uncreative worker.
J. Richard Clarke

The person who builds a factory builds a temple; the person who works there worships there; and to each is due not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
Calvin Coolidge

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
T. Boone Pickens

If you want to move up in business, the first rule is not to be invisible ... To be noticed by bosses, do ask questions and offer constructive advice. Don't substitute talk for action. Don't be afraid to present your best abilities when the opportunity arrives. Don't be shy.
George Mazzei

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.
Chinese proverb

It is important to know that supervisors and colleagues value the contribution I make. Knowing I'm valued helps me strive to do the best job I can.
Focus Group on Staff Recognition
University of California, Berkley

The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle.

God does not ask about our ability, but our availability.

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

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
William Hazlitt

The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition.
John D. Rockefeller

The most important thing for a young man is to establish credit - a reputation and character.
John D. Rockefeller

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

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
Sam Walton, 1918-1992, American Businessman, Founder of Wal-Mart Stores

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.
Sam Walton, 1918-1992, American Businessman, Founder of Wal-Mart Stores

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
Thomas J. Watson, founder of IBM

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Oprah Winfrey

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

Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.
Oprah Winfrey

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Winston Churchill

He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Benjamin Franklin

The man who achieves makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all - doing nothing.
Benjamin Franklin

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
Benjamin Franklin

Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.
Benjamin Franklin

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
Benjamin Franklin

Never contradict anybody.
Benjamin Franklin

Business is a combination of war and sport.
Andre Maurois

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Donald Trump

Eats first, morals after.
Bertolt Brecht

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprise.## Demosthenes
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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Kirk Kerkorian
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Woodrow Wilson, American President
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Milton S. Hershey, Founder of Hershey's Chocolate
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Goethe
http://www.brainyzip.com/zipcodes/26/26824.html

James Ling, American Business Executive
http://wolfram.org/eric

Martha Stewart
http://www3.registrar.uwo.ca/cfns/OCDons_Team.cfm

Socrates
http://newsie8200.dailykos.com/story/2005/11/9/91059/7244

http://www.corebeliefinfo.com/pc.html

Albert Einstein
http://store.sundancesolar.com/imismoimst.html

David Weinbaum
http://www.uni.edu/studentorgs/greeklife/greektour9.htm

Robert Frost
http://boomersint.org/poems/thought11.htm

John Von Neumann
http://www.wbabin.net/babin/critique.htm

http://www.ggci.com/Articles/hindsight-learning.htm

Mary Kay Ash
www.paulenesjournaljourney.homestead.com/journal.html

Lewis Carroll
http://www.tsuccess.dircon.co.uk/newsletter-good-performance-through-praise.htm

Karl von Clausewitz
http://www.ci.baltimore.md.us/neighborhoods/nnf/020503.html

Herbert Hoover
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David Brent
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/02/04/nquot104.xml

Warren Buffett
http://home.midsouth.rr.com/drumco/Quotations.htm

Warren Buffett
http://www.tomments.com/tomments5.htm

Warren Buffett
http://www.sandmansplace.com/Sandman_Favorite_Quotes.html

Warren Buffett
http://www.sowealthlibrary.com/wbsr2.htm

Warren Buffett
http://www.teenanalyst.com/general/topmoneyminds.html

Warren Buffett
http://www.personalmba.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=25&page=1

Warren Buffett
http://nofieiman.com/2005/11/06/138/wisdom-of-warren-buffett

John Maynard Keynes
http://www.giga-usa.com/quotes/authors/john_maynard_keynes_a001.htm

Harold Geneen
http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/english/Ca/Cash.html

Ronald Reagan
http://www.neoperspectives.com/RonaldReagan.htm