The Ultimate Book of Business Quotations

Stuart Crainer

Publisher: Capstone, 1997, 358 pages

ISBN: 1-900961-29-6

Keywords: Management

Last modified: Aug. 4, 2021, 7:13 p.m.

The Ultimate Book of Business Quotations is a unique collection of wise, inspiring, hilarious, fatuous, embarrassing and pointless aphorisms and bon môts from the world's most brilliant, thoughtful, greedy and self-serving business minds.

It is organized under headings that reflect the real life of business as we know it, not the dream world of strategic planners, consultants and job descriptions:

  • Ambition
  • Big, bigger, Biggest
  • Bosses and bastards
  • Business travel
  • Cars and car parks
  • Colleagues
  • Computer catastrophe
  • Ego
  • Gossip
  • Meetings
  • Mission and misery
  • Office politics
  • Team trials
  • Action Heroes
  • Ads and Admen
  • Advice and Advisers
  • Ambition: Naked Intent
  • Anger and Arguments
  • Balancing the Books
  • Belief and Believers
  • Big Business
  • Books and Bookmen
  • Bosses and Bastards
  • Brands
  • Bureaucracy and Bureaucrats
  • Capital Markets
  • Career Snakes and Ladders
  • Change
  • Committees and Teams
  • Common Sense
  • Communication
  • Companies and Company Men
  • Competition and Competitors
  • Computer crashes
  • Corporate Classrooms
  • Creativity at Work
  • Crises and Dramas
  • Decision Time
  • Delegation
  • Dreams and Dreamers
  • Economics and Economists
  • Ego, Esteem and Self
  • Enthusiasts and Entrepreneurs
  • Ethics and Values
  • Experience
  • Eyes and Ears
  • Facts, Fictions and Statistics
  • Fair Share
  • Fame and Fortune
  • Fear and Failure
  • The Future
  • Going Global
  • Greed
  • Gurus and Gods
  • Hard Labor
  • Helpful Hints
  • Hierarchies
  • Hiring and Firing
  • Hope and Charity
  • Ideas and Innovation
  • Idlers and Idleness
  • Indecision
  • Information
  • Intuition, Guts and Logic
  • Investors and Investment
  • Knowledge, Know-How and Learning
  • Laws and Orders
  • Leaders and Leadership
  • Love and Emotion
  • Luck and Timing
  • Management
  • Marketing
  • Measurement
  • Media Packs
  • Missions, Mottoes and Mantras
  • Mistakes
  • Money Go Round
  • Motivation
  • Office Life
  • Opportunity Knocks
  • Originality
  • People
  • Persistence…  or Not
  • Planes, Trains and Automobiles
  • Plans and Planning
  • Pleasures
  • Power
  • Predictions and Prophecies
  • Prices
  • Problem Solving
  • Profit
  • Progress
  • Quality
  • Questions and Answers
  • Responsibility
  • Retirement
  • Risk and Risk Taking
  • Sell Sell Sell
  • Simplicity
  • Specialists and Generalists
  • Speeches
  • Speed freaks
  • Spend Spend Spend
  • Standards
  • Strategy
  • Stress
  • Success
  • Tactics
  • Targets
  • Taxes and Death
  • Technology
  • Theory and Thinking
  • Time Management
  • Tough Talking
  • Truth and Lies
  • Vision
  • Winning and Losing
  • Women and Men
  • Work
  • The Ends… and Means

Reviews

The Ultimate Book of Business Quotations

Reviewed by Roland Buresund

Mediocre **** (4 out of 10)

Last modified: May 21, 2007, 2:51 a.m.

Totally meaningless, but good if you want to find some quotes.

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