An entrepreneur, if there is such a thing, is a born schemer and thinker up of things.

Alan Sugar (1947 - )

British entrepreneur.

'If everybody minded their own business,' the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, 'the world would go round a deal faster than it does.

Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)

British writer and mathematician.

A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one makes him your enemy.

"the Elder" Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (55? BC - 40? AD)

Roman rhetorician.

There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Sam Walton (1918 - 1992)

U.S. retail executive.

Buy stocks like you buy your groceries, not like you buy your perfume.

Warren Buffett (1930 - )

U.S. financier.

When the whale comes to the surface and spouts, that's when he gets harpooned.

John Livingston Weinberg (1925 - )

U.S. investment banker.