The Quotable Executive: Words
of Wisdom from Warren Buffett, Jack Welch, Shelly Lazarus, Bill Gates, Lou Gerstner,
Richard Branson, Carly Fiorina, Lee Iacocca, and more
INTRODUCTION
Looking to secure that corner office with the double-exposure view?
The Quotable Executive...Giving You the Business.
An invaluable resource for business professionals, students, speechwriters, and trivia
buffs of all kinds, John Woods' wide-ranging collection is a Bartlett's for today's bold
new breed of movers and shakers. By turns inspiring and celebratory, thoughtful and
challenging, witty and wry, The Quotable Executive delivers over a thousand perspectives
on everything from ambition to leadership to success.
CONTENTS
Introduction.
Acknowledgements.
Ability.
Accounting.
Achievement.
Action.
Advertising.
Advice.
Agreement.
Ambition.
Arrogance.
Aspiration.
Attitude.
Authority.
Big Business.
Brands.
Bureaucracy.
Business.
Capitalism.
Career Development.
Challenge.
Change.
Character.
Commitment.
Communication.
Competence.
Competition.
Compromise.
Computers.
Confidence.
Confidence.
Conflict.
Conformity.
Consultants.
Conviction.
Cooperation.
Corporate culture.
Creativity.
Criticism.
Customers.
Decision Making.
Determination.
Discipline.
Diersity.
Education.
Efficiency.
Employment.
Enthusiasm.
Entrepreneurs.
Ethics.
Excellence.
Expectations.
Experience.
Facts.
Failure.
Free Eneterprise.
Fulfillment.
Global Economy.
Human Relations.
Humility.
Ideas.
Improvement.
Information Management.
Innovation.
Integrity.
Intelligence.
Interdependence.
Knowledge Management.
Labor Relations.
Leadership.
Learning.
Life Balance.
Listening.
Management.
Managing.
Marketing.
Mistakes.
Money.
Motivation.
Negotiation.
Networking.
Opportunity.
Perseverance.
Personnel Development.
Planning.
Power.
Problem Solving.
Productivity.
Profit.
Progress.
Quality.
Responsibility.
Risk.
Sales and Selling.
Startups.
Success.
Teams.
Technology.
Time Management.
Training.
Women in Business.
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