Download or read book Forbes Book of Quotations written by Ted Goodman and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 1399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and updated, this bestselling collection of business wit and wisdom is the ultimate desk reference for the cube and corner office, by one of the world's most popular business publications. Forbes is one of the world's most trusted, recognizable, and growing brands in business news and information both in print and online. This comprehensive collection of business quotations gathers more than 10,000 apt, astute, and motivational remarks on scores of topics, organized alphabetically, from "Ability" to "Excellence" to "Salesmanship." First published in 1997, this all new edition is updated with hundreds of new quotations, from the likes of Steve Jobs, Sheryl Sandberg, and Oprah Winfrey that pertain to modern business culture. Forbes Book of Quotations is the perfect gift or reference tool for students, budding entrepreneurs, and seasoned professionals alike, or anyone looking for a sharp-witted way to make a lasting impression.
Download or read book The Big Book of Business Quotations written by Johnnie L. Roberts and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quotable reference for anyone interested in learning the ins and outs of business or starting their own. More than one million people in the United States take the necessary steps to enroll in master’s of business programs every single year. These students learn the fundamentals required to eventually start their own businesses, carry on family businesses, or become CEOs of other people’s businesses. The Big Book of Business Quotations, compiled and edited by journalist Johnnie Roberts, features advice, ideas, strategies, and secrets that helped make some of the most successful businesspeople in the world rich, famous, or both. These quotes will inspire and motivate any current or aspiring businessperson to achieve success. “Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.” —Norman Schwarzkopf “Business opportunities are like buses; there’s always another one coming.” —Richard Branson “You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” —Warren Buffett “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” —Coco Chanel
Download or read book The Forbes Book of Business Quotations written by Edward C. Goodman and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of quotes of wisdom and wit drawn from past issues of Forbes Magazine.
Download or read book The New Yale Book of Quotations written by Fred R. Shapiro and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised, enlarged, and updated edition of this authoritative and entertaining reference book —named the #2 essential home library reference book by the Wall Street Journal “Shapiro does original research, earning [this] volume a place on the quotation shelf next to Bartlett's and Oxford's.”—William Safire, New York Times Magazine (on the original edition) “A quotations book with footnotes that are as fascinating to read as the quotes themselves.”—Arthur Spiegelman, Washington Post Book World (on the original edition) Updated to include more than a thousand new quotations, this reader-friendly volume contains over twelve thousand famous quotations, arranged alphabetically by author and sourced from literature, history, popular culture, sports, digital culture, science, politics, law, the social sciences, and all other aspects of human activity. Contemporaries added to this edition include Beyoncé, Sandra Cisneros, James Comey, Drake, Louise Glück, LeBron James, Brett Kavanaugh, Lady Gaga, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Barack Obama, John Oliver, Nancy Pelosi, Vladimir Putin, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, and David Foster Wallace. The volume also reflects path-breaking recent research resulting in the updating of quotations from the first edition with more accurate wording or attribution. It has also incorporated noncontemporary quotations that have become relevant to the present day. In addition, The New Yale Book of Quotations reveals the striking fact that women originated many familiar quotations, yet their roles have been forgotten and their verbal inventions have often been credited to prominent men instead. This book’s quotations, annotations, extensive cross-references, and large keyword index will satisfy both the reader who seeks specific information and the curious browser who appreciates an amble through entertaining pages.
Download or read book Book of African American Quotations written by Joslyn Pine and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original collection of quotations cites approximately 100 well-known African Americans from all walks of life, including Maya Angelou, Louis Armstrong, Muhammad Ali, Julian Bond, George Washington Carver, Frederick Douglass, and Ralph Ellison.
Download or read book The Forbes Book of Business Quotations written by Ted Goodman and published by Black Dog & Leventhal Pub. This book was released on 2007-02-27 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now including thousands of new quotations, this bestselling compilation of business wit and wisdom is the ultimate desk reference for speakers, writers, CEOs, managers, and employees alike. This handsome collection, featuring nearly 2,000 new quotations, new topics, and a fresh new look, is a trove of enlightening and useful witticisms about the world of business, drawn from across the centuries and all corners of the globe. It features a wide range of germane wisdom from such contemporary luminaries as Katherine Graham, Susan Sontag, Bill Gates, Ronald Reagan, Fran Lebowitz, Gore Vidal, and Donald Trump alongside timeless quotes from Ovid, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Gertrude Stein, Mahatma Gandhi, Henry Ford, Helen Keller, John D. Rockefeller, Oscar Wilde, J.R.R. Tolkien, Virginia Woolf, George Bernard Shaw, and thousands of others—not to mention hundreds of quotes from the Forbes men themselves. Fully indexed for easy use as a speaker’s or writer’s reference, this inspiring volume comes straight from the most trusted and widely read business magazine of all time.
Download or read book The Encarta Book of Quotations written by Bill Swainson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-09-30 with total page 1360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are 25,000 quotations drawn from the history, politics, literature, religions, science, and popular culture of the world--ranging from the earliest Chinese sages through Shakespeare to the present day.
Download or read book Book of Business Quotations written by Bill Ridgers and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-06-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of witty and entertaining business quotations brought together by the experts at The Economist An inspirational, informative, and insightful compendium of business wisdom, Book of Business Quotations brings together a remarkable collection of business quotations. Going well beyond just the most common, widely-known remarks from major industry figures, the book unearths little known comments from forgotten experts, novelists, and other non-traditional sources, placing them alongside the words of business luminaries to craft a truly comprehensive volume. Compiled partly from talking to businessmen, journalists, writers, and professors about quotations they have found particularly perceptive, and partly by trawling the reference sources, business publications, and The Economist itself, the book is structured alphabetically by subject, with approximately 50 sections. Brings together words of wit and wisdom about business from a diverse range of sources, including CEOs, novelists, business gurus, and politicians Includes remarks on all manner of current business topics, from global markets to e-commerce, from business history to consultants Quotations grouped by subject for easy access A helpful tool for anyone working in the world of business, Book of Business Quotations puts pearls of wisdom from a range of sources right at your fingertips.
Download or read book A Collection of Familiar Quotations written by John Bartlett and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Executive s Book of Quotations written by Julia Vitullo-Martin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This browsers delight is brimming with thousands of quotations for use in business speeches, reports, articles, or simply to spice conversation over lunch. 500 topics are arranged alphabetically, with everything from witticisms to epigrams to sage adages.
Download or read book The Manager s Book of Quotations written by Lewis D. Eigen and published by AMACOM/American Management Association. This book was released on 1991-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents more than 5,000 sayings grouped under forty-seven management topics to be used in such areas as speeches, training seminars, and interviews and in policy manuals, reports and newsletters
Download or read book The Speaker s Book of Quotations Completely Revised and Updated written by Henry O. Dormann and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2009-07-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM THE WORLDS OF BUSINESS, POLITICS, HISTORY, LITERATURE, ENTERTAINMENT, AND MORE . . . "Think how much happier women would be if, instead of endlessly fretting about what the males in their lives are thinking, they could relax, secure in the knowledge that the correct answer is: very little." --DAVE BARRY "I'd tell you what I really thought about the national media, but as my good friend Dana Carvey would say, 'Wouldn't be prudent. Not gonna do it.' " --GEORGE BUSH "We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?" --JEAN COCTEAU "Don't find fault. Find a remedy." --HENRY FORD "Peace is more precious than a piece of land." --ANWAR SADAT "People who read tabloids deserve to be lied to." --JERRY SEINFELD "Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of lifetime." --ADLAI STEVENSON
Download or read book Dean LeBaron s Book of Investment Quotations written by Dean LeBaron and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Dean LeBaron s Book of Investment Quotations "Looking for a pungent quote to help round out a speech or paper? You ll find it here. Looking for a pleasant, enlightening reading experience? You ll find that here too. Enjoy Dean LeBaron s fine compendium at your leisure." John C. Bogle, Founder, The Vanguard Group "A delightful compilation of humorous and thought-provoking quotations on all aspects of investment management from one of the legends of the investment business." Burton G. Malkiel, author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street "Humorous and humbling. This must be the greatest collection of words that I wish I had said, expressing insights that I wish that I had had. To open the book to any page is to assure yourself of joy." Bob Monks, Chairman of Lens Investment Management LLC and Publisher, www.ragm.com "A delightful and remarkably insightful collection of aphorisms, adages, and epigrams lovingly hand-collected over the years by the dean of modern investment management." Andrew W. Lo, Harris & Harris Group Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management "From Warren Buffett to Jack Welch, Dean LeBaron has assembled a vast collection of insightful and wry quotes about investing in particular and life in general. It s great fun to browse, and an invaluable resource for speeches and articles." Martin Barnes, Managing Editor, The Bank Credit Analyst "A veritable march through a battery of apt quotations. They have been judiciously drawn from a wide variety of sources, old and new, combining humor with wisdom. I don t know what quote addicts did before Dean LeBaron began collecting. This treasure chest, with its very personal touch, supersedes all earlier efforts at collecting investment quotations. With its broad coverage and thoughtful section summaries, I find it an extremely helpful and enjoyable desk companion." William Wirth, Credit Suisse Group
Download or read book The Ultimate Book of Business Quotations written by Stuart Crainer and published by Amacom Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of comments organized under such topics as action heroes, creativity at work, fame and fortune, office life, and time management
Download or read book The Pocket Book of Quotations written by Henry Davidoff and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Garner s Quotations written by Dwight Garner and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of favorite quotes that the celebrated literary critic has collected over the decades. From Dwight Garner, the New York Times book critic, comes a rollicking, irreverent, scabrous, amazingly alive selection of unforgettable moments from forty years of wide and deep reading. Garner’s Quotations is like no commonplace book you’ll ever read. If you’ve ever wondered what’s really going on in the world of letters today, this book will make you sit up and take notice. Unputdownable!
Download or read book The Daily Book of Positive Quotations written by Linda Picone and published by . This book was released on 2007-12-27 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents 365 life-affirming quotations to guide readers through every day of the year, with uplifting words of wisdom that cover such topics as Daily Acts of Kindness, Make the Most of Today, Greeting the Morning, Living One Day at a Time, Today's To-Do List, and Working Hard Each Day.
