This quotation text is compiled to reflect the realities of the contemporary business environment - global markets, lean-and-mean, post-Cold War, networked, online. With more than 6,000 of the most provocative, illuminating and just plain funny quotes about the realities of business life today. This collection avoids platitudes to provide quotations with insight, humour and the grit of experience. Selections are provocative, sometimes politically incorrect, and frequently inconsistent with one another. They have been chosen because they illuminate how things work, why things work, because they have proven influential, because they would be influential if more people heard them, because they expose certain realities that many business people try to hide, and sometimes just because they are funny. Most quotes range from giants of the industry, such as Jack Welch of General Electric and the younger titans like Bill Gates and Philip Knight of Nike, to those whose business interests are influential but subordinate to their public roles, such as Michael Jordan, Oprah Winfrey, and Martha Stewart.