“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”
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“A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.”
“If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.”
“Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.”
“Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.”
“The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.”
“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.”
“Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.”
“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!”
“Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.”
“Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.”
“In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later.”
“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.”
“Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.”
“Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.”
“As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.”
“About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.”
“Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.”
“It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.”
“Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.”
“Business is a combination of war and sport.”
“An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.”
“In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.”
“When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.”