As long as youre green youre growing; as soon as youre ripe you start to rot.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
The difficulty with businessmen entering politics after theyve had a successful business career is that they want to start at the top.
Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Many blunder in business through inability or an unwillingness to adopt new ideas. I have seen many a success turn to failure also because the thought which should be trained on big things is cluttered up with the burden- some detail of little things.
In war the stronger overcomes the weaker. In business the stronger imparts strength to the weaker.
Theres no place like home theres no place like home theres no place like home.
As a small businessperson you have no greater leverage than the truth.
I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me: Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family? I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.
We [Microsoft] don't have a monopoly. We have market share. Theres a difference.
There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel and saving it from all risk of crankiness than business.
My son is now an entrepreneur. Thats what youre called when you don't have a job.
We demand that big business give people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself he given a square deal.
No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.
Public relations in this country is the art of adapting big business to a democracy so that the people have confidence that they are being well served and at the same time the business has freedom to serve them well.
The success and ultimately the survival of every business large or small depends in the last analysis on its ability to develop people. This ability is not measured by any of our conventional yardsticks of economic success; yet is the final measurement.
The world of antitrust is reminiscent of Alice's Wonderland: everything seemingly is yet apparently isn't simultaneously. It is a world in which competition is lauded as the basic axiom and guiding principle yet too much competition is condemned as cutthroat. It is a world in which actions designed to limit competition are branded as criminal when taken by businessmen yet praised as enlightened when initiated by the government. It is a world in which the law is so vague that businessmen have no way of knowing whether specific actions will be declared illegal until they hear the judge's verdict after the fact.
What synchronism means to a clock a convention means to our organization; it enables those of us who are behind to catch up and get in step with the others.
In the business world everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure: it interests the whole mind ... but it does not look as if it did.
If you bet on a horse thats gambling. If you bet you can make three spades thats entertainment. If you bet cotton will go up three points thats business. See the difference?
Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
Anybody can cut prices but it takes brains to make a better article.
In business as most of it is constituted today a man becomes valuable only as he recognizes the relation of his work to that of all his associates. One worker more or less makes little difference to most big organizations and any man may be replaced. It is the cumulative effort that counts.
We rail at trade but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America and destroyed feudalism and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.
The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.
Talk of nothing but business and dispatch that business quickly.
Business dispatched is business well done But business hurried is business ill done.
I do not believe you can do todays job with yesterdays methods and be in business tomorrow.
The businessman only wants two things said about his companywhat he pays his public relations people to say and what he pays his advertising people to say. He doesnt like anybody ever to look above beyond or over that.
Those who believe that we have reached the limit of business progress and employment opportunity in this country are like the farmer who had two windmills and pulled one down because he was afraid there was not enough wind for both.
It takes more than Capital to swing business. Youve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get byAdvertising Initiative and Dynamics.
A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision a dream of the whole thing.
I like business because it is competitive because it rewards deeds rather than words. I like business because it compels earnestness and does not permit me to neglect todays task while thinking about tomorrow. I like business because it undertakes to please not reform; because it is honestly selfish thereby avoiding hypocrisy and sentimentality. I like business because it promptly penalizes mistakes shiftlessness and inefficiency while rewarding well those who give it the best they have in them. Lastly I like business because each day is a fresh adventure.
The difference in companies is people. I would rather have a first-class manager running a second-rate business than a second-class manager running a first-rate business.
Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother statistics.
He who will not apply himself to business eventually discovers that he means to get his bread by cheating stealing or begging or else is wholly void of reason.
Lets form multi-disciplinary task forces to reengineer our core processes until were a world class organization.
We have yet to find a significant case where the company did not move in the direction of the chief executives home.
You cant operate a company by fear because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.
Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses.
The art of winning in business is in working hard not taking things too seriously.
American business men must learn human nature to the point of accepting as necessary the Rabble Rouser of the Right.... To get fast action somebody must stir millions to genuine anger over conditions which are adversely affecting their lives.
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most it is the honest man who doesnt know what he is doing.
Sometimes during the two-year curriculum every MBA student ought to hear it clearly stated that numbers techniques and analysis are all side matters. What is central to business is the joy of creating.
You generally hear that what a man doesnt know doesnt hurt him but in business what a man doesnt know does hurt.
Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented clerking is the worst.
To prosper soundly in business you must satisfy not only your customers but you must lay yourself out to satisfy also the men who make your product and the men who sell it.
To business that we love we rise betime And go tot with delight.
If we are to have a stabilized market demand selling pressure should be maintained ... perhaps increased ...at the first sign of a decline in business. I know of no single way business managers can do more to stabilize market demand than through greater stabilization of sales and advertising expenditures.
Never shrink from doing anything which your business calls you to do. The man who is above his business may one day find his business above him.
Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitude than by mental capacities.