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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)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Money" (F)
“Almighty gold.”
— Unknown
Business
Commerce
WealthU
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)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Money" (A:
Alphabetized by author or source)
“Money makes the man.”
— Unknown
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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.)
• 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
Organizational theoryU
Context: • Fitz-Greene Halleck, Alnwick Castle. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 521-24.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Money" (H)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Money" (H)
“This bank-note world.”
— Unknown
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“THIS IS YOUR GOD”
— Unknown
# 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.)
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 peopleT
Context: • 10 April 2023
• Source: Wikiquote: "Tom Peters" (Quotes, Tom Peters Daily / Weekly Quote:
Free eMail Subscriptions Available at TomPeters.com.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Tom Peters" (Quotes, Tom Peters Daily / Weekly Quote:
Free eMail Subscriptions Available at TomPeters.com.)
“People first!”
— Tom Peters
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Tom Peters" (Quotes, Tom Peters Daily / Weekly Quote:
Free eMail Subscriptions Available at TomPeters.com.)
Free eMail Subscriptions Available at TomPeters.com.)
“A ‘Client’ is ...”
— Tom Peters
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1976 births
Musicians
Founders
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
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))
• 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 birthsM
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)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Margaret Wheatley" (Quotes)
“To name is to make visible.”
— Margaret Wheatley
1944 births
People from New York (state)Context: • The Hundred Dollar Laptop-Computing for Developing Nations.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Nicholas Negroponte" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Nicholas Negroponte" (Quotes)
“Scale will get you strategy.”
— Nicholas Negroponte
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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.)
• 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
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Context: • p. 164.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Tom Peters" (Quotes, The Project 50 (Re-Inventing Work Series) (1999))
• Source: Wikiquote: "Tom Peters" (Quotes, The Project 50 (Re-Inventing Work Series) (1999))
“Lists simplify, clarify, edify.”
— Tom Peters
# Business & Labor
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Context: • Animals, The Flintstones, created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (F)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (F)
“It's a living.”
— Unknown
LaborU
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.)
• 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
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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.)
• 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
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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.)
• 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
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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.)
• 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 & 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)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Money" (B)
“Money is the devil's dung.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus to the Reader, p. 35. (Ed. 1887).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Money" (B)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Money" (B)
“Penny wise, pound foolish.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life (1860), Chapter III, "Wealth".
• Source: Wikiquote: "Money" (E)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Money" (E)
“Money often costs too much.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Henry Fielding, The Miser (1733), Act 3, Sc. 12.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Money" (F)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Money" (F)
“Penny saved is a penny got.”
— Unknown
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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)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Money" (T)
“Not greedy of filthy lucre.”
— Unknown
More Quotes
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1994 films
Drama films
Films based on novels
Thriller filmsU
1999 American films
1999 films
Comedy films
Cult filmsT
Context: • 10 April 2023
• Source: Wikiquote: "Tom Peters" (Quotes, Tom Peters Daily / Weekly Quote:
Free eMail Subscriptions Available at TomPeters.com.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Tom Peters" (Quotes, Tom Peters Daily / Weekly Quote:
Free eMail Subscriptions Available at TomPeters.com.)
“People first!”
— Tom Peters
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Context: • George Colman the Younger, The Poor Gentleman, Act I. 2; Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 181.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Debt" (C)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Debt" (C)
“I owe you one.”
— Unknown
Economics
VicesU
Context: • Animals, The Flintstones, created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (F)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (F)
“It's a living.”
— Unknown
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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)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Money" (F)
“Almighty gold.”
— Unknown
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2008 films
2000s American films
Business filmsU
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Context: • Founded on the words of Archias of Thebes. in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 85-87.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Business" (A)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Business" (A)
“Business tomorrow.”
— Unknown
ManagementU
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.)
• 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
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Context: • First message transmitted via internet technology from UCLA to Stanford University (29 October 1969), the first two letters of "LOGIN", after which one system crashed, before the "G" could be sent, as reported in "Internet Began 35 Years Ago at UCLA with First Message Ever Sent Between Two Computers" (2 September 2004).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Internet" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Internet" (Quotes)
“LO”
— Unknown
InternetU
Political ideologiesU
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)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Money" (A:
Alphabetized by author or source)
“Money makes the man.”
— Unknown
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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.)
• 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
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Ernesta G. Procope" (Quotes)
““I don't give up."”
— Ernesta G. Procope
1923 births
2021 deaths
American businesspeople in insurance
African-American bankersT
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Tom Peters" (Quotes, Tom Peters Daily / Weekly Quote:
Free eMail Subscriptions Available at TomPeters.com.)
Free eMail Subscriptions Available at TomPeters.com.)
“A ‘Client’ is ...”
— Tom Peters
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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)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Money" (H)
“This bank-note world.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Tagline to Highlander, written by Gregory Widen, Peter Bellwood, and Larry Ferguson.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Competition" (W)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Competition" (W)
“There can be only one.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Nicholas Negroponte" (Quotes, Being Nicholas, The Wired Interview by Thomas A. Bass)
“Cyberlaw is global law.”
— Nicholas Negroponte
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