“A collection of business quotations from the famous and not-so-famous to inspire, amuse, and advise you. Use these business quotations as a ‘thought of the day’ or to add a thought-provoking tag line to your email.”

“The economic picture may be brightening at last, and this could be the time to repair the damage to your retirement portfolio.”

“Today’s disgraced chieftains are the product of 100 years of evolution… At a time when corporate scandals have people wondering about the future of the chief executive, we decided to do a little digging into the past and ask, How did we get here? Can we draw a line from [John Jacob] Astor to Dennis Kozlowski?”

“The economic picture may be brightening at last, and this could be the time to repair the damage to your retirement portfolio.”

“Corporate executives aren’t known as the spill-their-guts type. But some are beginning to participate in an activity once thought to be the preserve of technology geeks and political partisans. Executives are beginning to blog.”

“Will the real business process management systems please stand up? …Business process management (BPM) wins the ‘triple crown’ of saving money, saving time and adding value. It also spans the business and technological gap to create synergy, with proven results.”

“A strategy+business roundtable on CEO turnover and CEO success, with Rakesh Khurana, Thomas J. Neff, Bruce Pasternack, Didier Pineau-Valencienne, and Kenneth Roman.” (Requires free registration)

“Business blogs are taking off. Are you up to speed? Learn how your business can harness the power of weblogs to improve communication and efficiency at this hands-on workshop… Who’s behind it? 37signals and Coudal Partners — both pioneers in the corporate blogging world — will lead the full day discussion.”

“ADSlogans Unlimited, home of the Advertising Slogan Hall of Fame, runs the world’s most comprehensive advertising slogans database archive. A unique global resource for advertisers and ad agencies, comprising many thousands of English-language commercial advertising slogans, business, company, product or brand marketing slogans, taglines or tag lines, claims, straplines, theme lines, endlines, payoffs, signatures, base lines, slogos (the slogan by the logo) and catchphrases. These are often unregistered, and hard to find in standard trademark registers or directories.”

“An exclusive survey shows CEO participation, smart use of technology, and bold change initiatives are key to successful Supply Chain Management.”

“…if you like to follow stories of startups, I plan to maintain a journal here at Bourland.com wherein I share my experiences getting Up2Speed to revenue and profitability as things progress. I’ll be as detailed as I can be without disclosing confidences, secret plans and personal issues about partners or employees…”

“How to leave a job or client without burning bridges… ‘You don’t want to make enemies,’ says Pepper Schwartz, Ph.D., sociology professor at the University of Washington and nationally recognized relationship expert. ‘Egos are on the line, and people act badly when they feel dismissed or rejected. So the greatest challenge is to make them feel that it isn’t about them, but about the match. In some ways the skills that go into a good goodbye in romantic relationships are similar.’”

“…if you like to follow stories of startups, I plan to maintain a journal here at Bourland.com wherein I share my experiences getting Up2Speed to revenue and profitability as things progress. I’ll be as detailed as I can be without disclosing confidences, secret plans and personal issues about partners or employees…”