May 2007 - Small Business News

Running a business is never easy; it takes time, effort and ability. The knowledge and advice that business owners can give is invaluable for those running or starting a new business.

After the popularity of the last article on the subject, here are some more top business quotes and thoughts from BDO Stoy Hayward’s 33 Thoughts; which features regular instalments of clever and amusing observations from business people past and present, as well as some unexpected sources.

Our favourite quotes were:

• Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you’re scared to death. – Harold Wilson
   
• The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scales. – Arthur C Clarke
   
• Talent hits a target no-one else can hit; genius hits a target no-one else can see. - Arthur Schopenhauer
   
• Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning, a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle… when the sun comes up, you’d better be running. - African proverb

Read the full list of thoughts at the BDO Stoy Hayward site here.