947 quotes found
“Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.”
“Patience is a most necessary quality for business many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.”
“A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.”
“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.”
“Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.”
“A man isn't a man until he has to meet a payroll.”
“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 ...”
“I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.”
“Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.”
“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...”
“Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?”
“The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.”
“In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”
“What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.”
“Business is a combination of war and sport.”
“Net - the biggest word in the language of business.”
“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.”
“The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.”
