If you don’t do it excellently, don’t do it at all. Because if it’s not excellent, it won’t be profitable or fun, and if you’re not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?
Business Quotes
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 be given a square deal.
Most of those who say so easily that this is our way – do not, I am convinced, understand the fundamental changes of attitude, new disciplines, revised legal structures, unaccustomed limitations on activity, are all necessary if we are to plan. This amounts, in fact, to the abandonment, finally, of laissez faire. It amounts, practically, […]
The notion that a business is clothed with a public interest and has been devoted to the public use is little more than a fiction intended to beautify what is disagreeable to the sufferers.
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 his associates. It is the cumulative effort that counts.
All lasting business is built on friendship.
The most enlightening judicial policy is to let people manage their own business in their own way.
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. (Comments on price increases proposed by U.S. Steel)
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.
It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.
