947 quotes found
“Inflation is defined as the quality that makes balloons larger and candy bars smaller.”
“I think that there is nothing not even crime more opposed to poetry to philosophy ay to life itself than this incessant business.”
“It is not the employer who pays wages - he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.”
“Business is really more agreeable than pleasure it interests the whole mind . . . more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.”
“The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.”
“In all modern depressions recessions or growth-correction as variously they are called we never miss the goods that are not produced. We miss only the opportunities for the labour - for the job...”
“The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organize gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.”
“To convert an hourly wage to an approximate yearly salary double the wage and change the decimal to a comma.”
“After an eight-hour day workers require three overtime hours to produce two regular hours of results.”
“Gross National Product is our Holy Grail.”
“When two men in business always agree one of them is unnecessary.”
“Few great men could pass Personnel.”
“You build on cost and you borrow on value.”
“By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affe...”
“Management is now where the medical profession was when it decided that working in a drug store was not sufficient training to become a doctor.”
“The Bell System is like a damn big dragon. You kick it in the tail and two years later it feels it in its head.”
“Benefits should be granted little by little so that they may be better enjoyed.”
“The price spoils the pleasure.”
“Whose bread I eat his song I sing.”
“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which h...”
