People will buy anything that is ‘one to a customer.’
We don’t have a monopoly. We have market share. There’s a difference.
The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
People are definitely a company’s greatest asset. It doesn’t make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Business can be a source of progressive change.
Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
A bankruptcy judge can fix your balance sheet, but he cannot fix your company.
Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that’s the game we’re playing today.
The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.
It’s called a pen. It’s like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
The business of America is business.
