947 quotes found
“Expenditure rises to meet income.”
“I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.”
“If you fail to plan you plan to fail.”
“It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services.”
“Man exploits man. Under communism it's just the opposite.”
“It might be termed the Law of Triviality. Briefly stated it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in adverse proportion to the sum involved.”
“It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law than it takes to operate a taxi cab or f...”
“Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.”
“Managers don't have to cook the books to manipulate earnings they often have all the power they need in the leeway built into accounting rules.”
“Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense and great expense may be an essential part of true economy.”
“One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.”
“Remember that when an employee enters your office he is in a strange land.”
“The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate secretly and unobserved an important part of the wealth ...”
“The big unions served a noble purpose once and bless them for it. Now they're part of the problem and must give way if America is to move and to participate in management and achieve reasonable pr...”
“Luck is infatuated with the efficient.”
“One of the best-kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.”
“The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.”
“The corporation is an artificial being invisible intangible and existing only in contemplation of law.”
“The forces in a capitalist society if left unchecked tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.”
“The manager with the in-basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of activities that fail to excite him.”
