“The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.”
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“Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.”
“The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.”
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”
“A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.”
“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.”
“Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.”
“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”
“The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.”
“Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.”
“It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.”
“If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.”
“An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”
“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.”
“The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.”
“Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.”
“Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.”
“If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.”
“Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.”
“Word of mouth is the best medium of all.”
“It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.”
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”
“Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.”