Bus Quotes - Page 4

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

If you mind your own business, you`ll stay busy all the time.

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do but to achieve what they want to achieve.

There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair. Yet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair.

Everything is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.

If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big!

Motivate them, train them, care about them, and make winners out of them... they'll treat the customers right. And if customers are treated right, they'll come back.

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power, this story never would have been written. Were it alone in these methods, public scorn would long ago have made short work of the Standard Oil Company. But it is simply the most conspicuous type of what can be done by these practices. The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.

Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!

The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.

Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people... it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.

No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.