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Quotes About Control

War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
What gets measured gets managed.
~ Peter Drucker
Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.
~ Noam Chomsky
Quality has to be caused, not controlled.
~ Phil Crosby
Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.
~ J. P. Morgan
The only reason to make a million dollars in this business is to tell some fat producer to go to hell.
~ Humphrey Bogart
Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.
~ Jean Giraudoux
Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
~ William S. Burroughs
When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you're mentally out of your business.
~ Byron Katie
In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Systems run the business and people run the systems.
~ Michael Gerber
The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Do not let anyone else run your business
~ Benjamin Graham
Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better.
~ Jeremy Collier
The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.
~ Benjamin Franklin
If you want to succeed, you've got to be okay to just lose control.
~ Alexis Ohanian
Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.
~ Gene Sharp
Monopoly is business at the end of its journey.
~ Henry Demarest Lloyd
In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.
~ Peter Lynch
When you make a business, you get to make a little universe where you control all the laws.
~ Derek Sivers
If your business depends on you, you don't own a business—you have a job. And it's the worst job in the world because you're working for a lunatic!
~ Michael Gerber
It's dangerous business, thinking you can make people over.
~ Lenora Mattingly Weber
What do you mean "gangsters"? It's business.
~ Abraham Polonsky