947 quotes found
“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.”
“Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”
“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.”
“Capital is past savings accumulated for future production.”
“Power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.”
“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...”
“If a cluttered desk is an indication of a cluttered mind what is indicated by an empty desk?”
“A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.”
“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.”
“The Middle East is a region where oil is thicker than blood.”
“All professions are a conspiracy against the country.”
“Labour is not a commodity or a standard or a means to an ulterior end but an end in itself.”
“Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.”
“Along this tree From root to crown Ideas flow up And vetoes down.”
“A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.”
“Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.”
“Business is more exciting than any game.”
“A company is judged by the president it keeps.”
