Business Quote by C. Wright Mills

Great captains of industry are as rare as great generals

— William Graham Sumner

The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean…

— Horatio Nelson

If you are going to be a successful duck hunter, you must go where the ducks are.

— Bear Bryant

“Many notorious military blunders have been set up by poor personal relationships (if not wilful taciturnity) between key participants, the need for whose informal…

— Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon

“Apparently, the British Royal Navy had just recruited an elephant hunter to bring down a battleship.”

— Robert Gaudi

“Not that I mean the least fling against men who have won a great fleet action - it is right and proper that THEY…

— Patrick O'Brian

The Army is life's way of telling us to duck.

— Elias Atienza

Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as…

— William Graham Sumner

To win by strategy is no less the role of a general than to win by arms.

— Julius Caesar

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

— Ambrose Bierce

I have often been reminded of the wild duck that came down on migration into a barnyard and liked it so well that he…

— Vance Havner

When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?

— Douglas Coupland