947 quotes found
“To business that we love we rise betime And go to it with delight.”
“The white man knows how to make everything but he does not know how to distribute it.”
“There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.”
“There is only one social responsibility of business - to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits without deception or fraud.”
“Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.”
“Today's sales should be better than yesterday's - and worse than tomorrow's.”
“Twenty generations ago - around the year 1390 - you had 1 048 576 ancestors. In the 21st generation of your family that number will double again.”
“We have yet to find a significant case where the company did not move in the direction of the chief executive's home.”
“You are never giving nor can you ever give enough service.”
“In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20%.”
“Christmas is over and Business is Business.”
“People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.”
“Competition means decentralized planning by many separate persons.”
“All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to a judicious use of sabotage.”
“Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.”
“One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.”
“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.”
“Chaplin is no businessman - all he knows is that he can't take anything less.”
“What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm capitalism is that kind of a system.”
