The Forbes Book of Business Quotations 10,000 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Now including thousands of new quotations, this bestselling compilation of business wit
and wisdom is the ultimate desk reference for speakers, writers, CEOs, managers, and
employees alike.
This handsome collection, featuring nearly 2,000 new quotations, new topics, and a
fresh new look, is a trove of enlightening and useful witticisms about the world of
business, drawn from across the centuries and all corners of the globe. It features a wide
range of germane wisdom from such contemporary luminaries as Katherine Graham, Susan
Sontag, Bill Gates, Ronald Reagan, Fran Lebowitz, Gore Vidal, and Donald Trump alongside
timeless quotes from Ovid, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Gertrude Stein, Mahatma Gandhi, Henry
Ford, Helen Keller, John D. Rockefeller, Oscar Wilde, J.R.R. Tolkien, Virginia Woolf,
George Bernard Shaw, and thousands of others - not to mention hundreds of quotes from the
Forbes men themselves. Fully indexed for easy use as a speaker's or writer's reference,
this inspiring volume comes straight from the most trusted and widely read business
magazine of all time.
Ted Goodman is the general editor of the Avery Index to Architectural
Periodicals at Columbia University in New York City. He is the author of Fire! The 100
Most Devastating Fires Through the Ages and the Heroes Who Fought Them, and the editor
of Writing the Rails: Train Adventures by the World's Best-Loved Writers.
Paperback, 704 pages