“There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.”
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“The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.”
“Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.”
“Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.”
“Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.”
“Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.”
“And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.”
“If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.”
“It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.”
“I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.”
“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.”
“The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.”
“An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.”
“Our favorite holding period is forever.”
“Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.”
“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”
“Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.”
“If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
“If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.”
“Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.”
“The first mistake in public business is the going into it.”
“When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.”
“The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.”
“Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.”