Business Quotes

Business can be a source of progressive change.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.

If you fire people, you fire customers.

Word of mouth is the best medium of all.

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.