I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me Dont 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming genuinely interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
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.
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 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.
The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
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.
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me Dont 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] dont have a monopoly. We have market share. Theres a difference.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother statistics.
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.
If you dont drive your business you will be driven out of business.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.
In the business world everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Business is a combination of war and sport.
Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.
I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
We have yet to find a significant case where the company did not move in the direction of the chief executives home.
Lets form multi-disciplinary task forces to reengineer our core processes until were a world class organization.
If you can build a business up big enough its respectable.
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.
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
My son is now an entrepreneur. Thats what youre called when you dont have a job.
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.
As a small businessperson you have no greater leverage than the truth.
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.
Business dispatched is business well done But business hurried is business ill done.
The business of America is business.
Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is candy.
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure: it interests the whole mind … but it does not look as if it did.
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.
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.
Dont steal; thou?lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.
American business can out-think out-work out-perform any nation in the world. But we cant beat the competition if we dont get in the ball game.
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.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming genuinely interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses.
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.
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.
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.
Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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.
The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
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.