Start-up's
If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started by a mouse. When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. Business? That's very simple: it's other people's money. Management's job is to see the company not as it is...but as it can become. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. Genius begins great works, labor alone finishes them. Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try. Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars. Before you can score, you must first have a goal. Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. Walt Disney (1901-1966) Walt Disney (1901-1966) William Wrigley, Jr. (1861-1932) Alexandre Dumas (1824-1895) John W. Teets (1933- ) Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) Anonymous C.D. Jackson (1902-1964) Quintus Ennius (239-169 B.C.) Anonymous St. Francis of Assisi (1182? ­ 1226)

Finanzen
In God we trust ­ all others pay cash. In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.. It's possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is; American business saying Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

There is no useful rule without an exception. Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) Lee Segall (1905- )

a man with two watches is never quite sure.. To err is human, but it is against company policy. Anonymous

Organisation
Our team is well balanced. We have problems everywhere. Successes have many fathers, failures have none. The longer the title, the less important the job. Tommy Prothro (1941- ) Philip Caldwell (1920- ) George McGovern (1922- )

The surest way for an executive to kill James Cash Penney (1875-1971) himself is to refuse to learn how, and when, and to whom to delegate work. The world is divided into people who do things ­ and people who get the credit. The prize of greatness is responsibility. Nothing is paticularily hard if you divide it into small jobs. No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. Dwight Morrow (1873-1931) Winston Churchill (1874-1965) Henry Ford (1863-1947) F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

Arbeit
The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows why will always be his boss. Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. A résumé is a balance sheet without any Diane Ravitch (1938- )

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Stanley J. Randall (1908- )

Robert Half (1918- )

liabilities. Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do. Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990)

The only place where success comes before Vidal Sassoon (1928- ) work is in the dictionary. The world is full of willing people, some Robert Frost (1874-1963) willing to work, the rest willing to let them. It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Elbert Hubbert (1856-1915)

Robinson Crusoe started the 40-hour-week. Leopold Fetchner (1916- ) He had all the work done by Friday.

Wettbewerb
When elephants fight, only the grass gets hurt. The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more. The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you. Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.. You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten them. What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight ­ it's the size of the fight in the dog. If winning isn't important, why do they keep score? Say no, then negotiate Swahili proverb Frank Mc Kinney Hubbard (1868-1930) Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) William Knudsen Jr. (1925- )

Arabic proverb Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)

Adolph Rupp (1901-1977)

Anonymous

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. Success is that old ABC ­ ability, breaks, and courage. To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them. Ability is nothing without opportunity. Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.

George P. Schultz (1920- )

Mark Twain (1835-1910) Charles Luckman (1909- ) John H. Patterson (1844-1922) Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) Anonymous

Risiko
You can only become a winner if you are willing to walk over the edge. No one tests the depth of a river with both feet. Ronald E. McNair (1950-1986) Ashanti proverb

There are one hundred men seeking security Jean Paul Getty (1892-1976) to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune. It is easy to be brave when far away from danger. Aesop (620-560 B.C.)

The greatest mistake you can make in life is Elbert G. Hubbard (1856-1915) to be continually fearing you will make one. The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life and you must accept regret. To win you have to risk loss.. Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881)

Jean-Claude Killy (1943- )

Produktion
Competition brings out the best in products David Sarnoff (1891-1971) and the worst in people. Seek simplicity and distrust it. Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)

It is not the employer who pays wages. He only handles with money. It is the product that pays wages and it is the management that arranges the production so that the product may pay the wages. You can hype questionnable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business. Large increases in cost with questionnable increases in performance can be tolerated only for race horses and fancy women.

Henry Ford (1863-1947)

Victor Kiam (1926- )

William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)

The most popular labor-saving device today Joey Adams (1911- ) is still a husband with money.

Qualität
The secret of joy in work is contained in oneword: excellence. To know how to dosomething well is to enjoy it. Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to make a better article. People forget how fast you did a job ­ but they remember how well you did it. Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)

Philip D. Armour (1832-1901) Howard W. Newton (1903-1951)

Kreativität
The real voyage of discovery consists not in Marcel Proust (1871-1922) making new landscapes but in having new eyes. It is better to light a candle than to curse the Chinese proverb darkness. In order to compose, all you need is to remember a tune that nobody else has thought of. Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Every act of creation is first of all an act of Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

Mark Twain (1835-1910) Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

destruction. To think is to act. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Creative minds always have been known to Anna Freud (1895-1982) survive any kinds of bad training. One has to look out for engineers ­ they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb. Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974)

Every child is an artist. The problem is how Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) to remain an artist once he grows up. A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. When business is good, it pays to advertise; Anonymous when business is bad, you've got to advertise.

Englische Zitate - Zeit
Someday is not a day of the week. Anonymous The secret of getting ahead is getting Mark Twain (1835-1910) started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. It isn't over till it's over. Remember that time is money. Half the agony of living is waiting. Yogi Berra (1925- ) Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Alexander Rose (1901- )

Those who make the worst use of their time Jean de La Bruyère (1645-1696) are the first to complain of its bevity. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time. Coco Chanel (1883-1971)

Effective managers live in the present ­ but James L. Hayes (1895-1971) concentrate on the future. People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. Don't wait for your ship to come in; swim out to it. It is better to begin in the evening than not at all. You can't escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. French proverb Anonymous English proverb Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

The fox that waited for the chickens to fall off their perch died of hunger. Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

Greek proverb Spanish proverb

Planung
No plan can prevent a stupid person from Charles E. Wilson (1890-1961) doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time ­ but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming. The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in. No river is shallow to a man who can't swim. John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) H.R. Haldemann (1926- ) Richard Boone (1899-1973)

Luck sometimes visits a fool, but never sits German proverb down with him. The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken. Expect the worst and your surprises will always be pleasant ones. George Herbert (1593-1633) Louis E. Boone (1941- )

You only live once, but if you work it right, Joe E. Lewis (1902-1971) once is enough. Plans are nothing; Planning is everything. It is a bad plan that admits of no modification. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) Pubililius Syrus (1st century B.C.)

There is nothing so useless as doing Peter Drucker (1909- ) effectively that which should not be done at all. Life is what happens while you are making other plans. We have to face the difficult challenge of changing when things are going well. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. Don't worry because a rival imitates you. As long as he follows in your track he cannot overtake you. Some people are making such thoroughly preparation for rainy days that they aren't John Lennon (1940-1980) John L. Chambers (1951- ) Howard Ruff (1930- ) Anonymous

William Feather (1889-1981)

enjoying today's sunshine.

Führung
Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. Vance Packard (1914-1996)

If two people ride the same horse, one must Anonymous ride behind. Soldiers win battles and generals get the credit. It's the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done. Managers are people who do things right, and leaders are people who do the right thing. Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it. In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is King. The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders. In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take. Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted. If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. There are no bad soldiers under a good general. To lead the people , walk behind them. Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973)

Warren G. Bennis (1925- ) & Burt Nanus (1936- )

Henry Mintzberg (1939- ) Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) Rupert Murdoch (1931- ) Robert Townsend (1920-1998)

Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965) Napoelon Bonaparte (1769-1821) Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994)

Johann Wolfang von Goethe (1749-1832) Anonymous Lao-tzu (6th century B.C.) Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)

In calm water every ship has a good captain. Swedish proverb

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind: if a Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) servant, sometimes deaf. A leader has the vision and conviction that a Ralph Lauren (1939- ) dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done. The leader must know, must know that he Clarence B. Randall (1891-1967) knows and must be able to make it abundantly clear to those around him that he knows. It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved. Niccolò Mchiavelli (1469-1527)

The top people of the biggest companies Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) are, surprisingly, often the nicest ones in their company, I'm not sure, though, if they got there because they were good guys or that they're now good guys because they can afford to be.

Anerkennung
What people say behind your back is your standing in the community. Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. Ed Howe (1853-1937) Mother Teresa (1910-1997)

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody Mother Teresa (1910-1997) to anybody. The deepest principle in human nature is the Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) crving to be appreciated. The two things that people want more than sex or money are recognition and praise. Mary Kay Ash (1915- )