Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, ‘Make me feel important.’ Never forget this message when working with people.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don’t care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
Our favorite holding period is forever.
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Not for nothing is their motto TGIF – ‘Thank God It’s Friday.’ They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.
If you have to forecast, forecast often.
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
Every few seconds it changes – up an eighth, down an eighth – it’s like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we’d all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.
Inside every working anarchy, there’s an Old Boy Network.
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
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.
Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman – not the attitude of the prospect.
Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality its left.
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
So little done, so much to do.
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.
