If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.
In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.
No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company.
Business, that’s easily defined – it’s other people’s money.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
You can’t 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.
Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
Business is in itself a power.
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don’t lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won’t stand up either.
Never argue with a profit.
The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman – like my father, or like me?
Exchange ideas frequently.
You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.
One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it’s making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it’s the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you’re dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.
I don’t think meals have any business being deductible. I’m for separation of calories and corporations.
There was a point in the late ‘90s where all the graduating M.B.A.’s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.
Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.
Employees make the best dates. You don’t have to pick them up and they’re always tax-deductible.
