947 quotes found
“You are never giving nor can you ever give enough service.”
“Few have heard of Fra Luca Parioli the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping but he has probably had more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.”
“When you've got them by their wallets their hearts and minds will follow.”
“Patience is a most necessary quality for business many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.”
“In economics the majority is always wrong.”
“Whenever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.”
“Pounds are the sons not of pounds but of pence.”
“As a rule from what I've observed the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night he just relapses int...”
“Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to grow after the New Deal. Government in the U.S. today is a ...”
“Big business is basic to the very life of this country and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction.”
“Don't gamble take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up then sell it. If it don't go up don't buy it.”
“All business proceeds on beliefs on judgements of probabilities and not on certainties.”
“Corporations cannot commit treason nor be outlawed nor excommunicated for they have no souls.”
“People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or in some contrivance to raise prices.”
“In the history of enterprise most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education - not in the classroom where the old ways are taught but in the factories and labs wh...”
“If a cluttered desk is an indication of a cluttered mind what is indicated by an empty desk?”
“Had there been a computer a hundred years ago it would probably have predicted that by now there would be so many horse-drawn vehicles it would be impossible to clear up all the manure.”
“Labour is not a commodity or a standard or a means to an ulterior end but an end in itself.”
“I think that there is nothing not even crime more opposed to poetry to philosophy ay to life itself than this incessant business.”
“Business is really more agreeable than pleasure it interests the whole mind . . . more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.”
