Business Quotations

«Business-citation» — a complete collection of quotations and aphorisms about business. These pages contain quotes from the best books about business by competent authors, as well as sayings from famous and outstanding business leaders. Here you can find smart and witty thoughts, as well as those that can be considered laws and rules of running a business.

Hyman Rickover— laws, rules, secrets. The best quotations and sayings with comments

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A system under which it takes three men to check what one is doing is not control; it is systematic strangulation.

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Quotation tags: management Hyman Rickover

To doubt one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Don't defend past actions; what is right today may be wrong tomorrow. Don't be consistent; consistency is the refuge of fools.

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Quotation tags: resolve Hyman Rickover

Sit down before fact with an open mind. Be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you learn nothing. Don't push out figures when facts are going in the opposite direction.