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Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Andy Warhol1928–1987The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), p. 92
- Art
- Business
I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
FCFrank Moore Colby1865–1925
No man who continues to add something to the material, intellectual, and moral well-being of the place in which he lives is long left without proper reward.
Booker T. Washington1856–1915Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter XVI: Europe
Advertising is the life of trade.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933
- Business
What you have lost will not be returned to you. It will always be lost. You’re left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on or not. But if you go on, it’s knowing you carry your scars with you.
CFCharles Frazierborn 1950
- Failure
I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don’t know why I do things.
J. B. S. Haldane1892–1964
- Motivation & Goals
There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, Yes, I’ve got dreams, of course I’ve got dreams. Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they’re still there.
EBErma Bombeck1927–1996
- Motivation & Goals
Men are born to succeed, not fail.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862
- Failure
Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don’t be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying.
MBMerry Browne
- Failure
I don’t want any yes-men around me. I want everyone to tell me the truth⁠—even if it costs him his job.
Samuel Goldwyn1882–1974
- Business
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
Jonathan Kozolborn 1936
No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
Al Goreborn 1948Concession speech (2000)
- Failure
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
IDIsaac D'Israeli1766–1848
- Motivation & Goals
We have to make America the best place in the world to do business.
Dick Cheney1941–2025
- America
- Business
Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
John Wooden1910–2010Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and Off the Court (1997)
- Motivation & Goals