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# Business & Commerce

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Context: • George Farquhar, Recruiting Officer, III. 2. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 521-24.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Money" (F)
“Almighty gold.”
— Unknown
Business Commerce Wealth
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Context: • Aristodemus. See Alcæus, Fragment. Miscel. Songs. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 521-24.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Money" (A:
Alphabetized by author or source)
“Money makes the man.”
— Unknown
Business Commerce Wealth
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Context: • Grotius, De Jure Belli et Pacis, lib. 2, cap. 9. See also 1st Inst. fol . 9 b. 3 Coke, 60 a.; 2 Bulstr. 233; 21 Edw. VI. f. 13.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Corporations" (Quotes, The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904):
Quotes reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 48-50.)
“Cities are immortal.”
— Unknown
Law Commerce Business Organizational theory
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Context: • Fitz-Greene Halleck, Alnwick Castle. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 521-24.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Money" (H)
“This bank-note world.”
— Unknown
Business Commerce Wealth
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Context: • Printed on currency in They Live by John Carpenter
• Source: Wikiquote: "Money" (C)
“THIS IS YOUR GOD”
— Unknown
Business Commerce Wealth

# Business & Living people

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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Tom Peters" (Quotes, Tom Peters Daily / Weekly Quote:
Free eMail Subscriptions Available at TomPeters.com.)
“a partner”
— Tom Peters
Non-fiction authors from the United States Orators from the United States 1942 births Living people
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Context: • 10 April 2023
• Source: Wikiquote: "Tom Peters" (Quotes, Tom Peters Daily / Weekly Quote:
Free eMail Subscriptions Available at TomPeters.com.)
“People first!”
— Tom Peters
Non-fiction authors from the United States Orators from the United States 1942 births Living people
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Tom Peters" (Quotes, Tom Peters Daily / Weekly Quote:
Free eMail Subscriptions Available at TomPeters.com.)
“A ‘Client’ is ...”
— Tom Peters
Non-fiction authors from the United States Orators from the United States 1942 births Living people
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Anna Mudeka" (Quotes)
“"Go with your passion"”
— Mudeka Anna
1976 births Living people Musicians Founders
Nicholas Negroponte
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Nicholas Negroponte" (Quotes, Being Nicholas, The Wired Interview by Thomas A. Bass)
“Cyberlaw is global law.”
— Nicholas Negroponte
Academics from the United States Technology writers from the United States Computer scientists from the United States Business theorists from the United States

# Business & Business theorists from the United States

John Kotter
Context: • Conclusion to the 2002 edition, p. 179
• Source: Wikiquote: "John Kotter" (Quotes, The Heart of Change, (2002): John Kotter (2002), The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations. Harvard Business School Press edition, (Most page numbers refer to the 2002 edition))
“We see, we feel, we change.”
— John Kotter
1947 births Living people Business theorists from the United States Academics from the United States
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Context: • Margaret Wheatley, Deborah Frieze (2011) Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now. p. 31
• Source: Wikiquote: "Margaret Wheatley" (Quotes)
“To name is to make visible.”
— Margaret Wheatley
1944 births Living people People from New York (state) Business theorists from the United States
Nicholas Negroponte
Context: • The Hundred Dollar Laptop-Computing for Developing Nations.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Nicholas Negroponte" (Quotes)
“Scale will get you strategy.”
— Nicholas Negroponte
Academics from the United States Technology writers from the United States Computer scientists from the United States Business theorists from the United States
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Context: • Attributed to organization theorist Mason Haire. p. 268.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Tom Peters" (Quotes, In Search of Excellence (1982):
Tom Peters & Robert H. Waterman, Jr. (1982) In Search of Excellence.)
“What gets measured gets done.”
— Tom Peters
Non-fiction authors from the United States Orators from the United States 1942 births Living people
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Context: • p. 164.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Tom Peters" (Quotes, The Project 50 (Re-Inventing Work Series) (1999))
“Lists simplify, clarify, edify.”
— Tom Peters
Non-fiction authors from the United States Orators from the United States 1942 births Living people

# Business & Labor

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Context: • Animals, The Flintstones, created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (F)
“It's a living.”
— Unknown
Business Labor
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Context: • John Heywood, Proverbs, Part I, Chapter II.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
“Haste makes waste.”
— Unknown
Business Labor
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Context: • The herd of hirelings. (A venal pack.)
• Plautus, Cistellaria, IV. 2. 67.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
“Grex venalium.”
— Unknown
Business Labor
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Context: • Do not wash bricks. (Waste your labor).
• Terence, Phormio, I, IV. 9. A Greek proverb.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
“Ne laterum laves.”
— Unknown
Business Labor
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Context: • He who labours, prays.
• Attr. to St. Augustine.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
“Qui laborat, orat.”
— Unknown
Business Labor

# Business & Wealth

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Context: • Basil of Caesarea, and then taken up by Francis of Assisi, as quoted in Pope Francis, To representatives of the Confederation of Italian Cooperatives, 28 February 2015.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Money" (B)
“Money is the devil's dung.”
— Unknown
Business Commerce Wealth
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Context: • Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus to the Reader, p. 35. (Ed. 1887).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Money" (B)
“Penny wise, pound foolish.”
— Unknown
Business Commerce Wealth
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Context: • Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life (1860), Chapter III, "Wealth".
• Source: Wikiquote: "Money" (E)
“Money often costs too much.”
— Unknown
Business Commerce Wealth
U
Context: • Henry Fielding, The Miser (1733), Act 3, Sc. 12.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Money" (F)
“Penny saved is a penny got.”
— Unknown
Business Commerce Wealth
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Context: • I Timothy, III. 3. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 521-24.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Money" (T)
“Not greedy of filthy lucre.”
— Unknown
Business Commerce Wealth
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