Thursday Thirteen

1. There's no business like show business. ~ Irving Berlin (Except for politics, which is a lot like show business. ~ me)

2. The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.  ~ Aristotle Onassis
 
3. One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. ~ Arnold H. Glasow

4. Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.  ~ Richard Nelson Bolles

5. The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'  ~ Jeff Bezos

6. No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit. ~ Andrew Carnegie

7. If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.  ~ Abraham Lincoln

8. If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. ~ Robert H. Schuller

9.  Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon. ~ Winston Churchill

10. No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation. ~ Orison Swett Marden

11. The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. ~  Confucius
 
12. A company is only as good as the people it keeps. ~ Mary Kay Ash

13. Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. ~ William Arthur Ward
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Thursday Thirteen is played by lots of people; there is a list here if you want to read other Thursday Thirteens and/or play along. I've been playing for a while and this is my 466th time to do a list of 13 on a Thursday.