Business Quotes - Page 48

That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.

There are no rules in the entertainment business.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

Well, one time some attractive woman sat next to Charlie and asked him what he owed his success to, and, unfortunately, she insisted on a one word answer. He had a speech prepared that would have gone on for several hours. But when forced to boil it down to one word, he said that was "rational". You know, he comes equipped for rationality, and he applies it in business. He doesn't always apply it elsewhere, but he applies it in business and that has made him a huge business success.

When there is blood on the street, I am buying.

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.

At the risk of repetition let me say again that my plea is not for immunity to, but for the most unsparing exposure of, the politician who betrays his trust, of the big business man who makes or spends his fortune in illegitimate or corrupt ways. There should be a resolute effort to hunt every such man out of the position he has disgraced. Expose the crime, and hunt down the criminal; but remember that even in the case of crime, if it is attacked in sensational, lurid, and untruthful fashion, the attack may do more damage to the public mind than the crime itself.

I believe that I was lucky to have suffered. Some people don't realize that in suffering there is great potential, because if you are deprived for any reason. Politically, financially, socially or otherwise and if you set your mind in the right direction, you will find that the only way to survive is for you to excel, by being better so you can be treated better.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Let's say you have $1,000,000 tied up in your little company and suddenly your advertising isn't working and sales are going down. And everything depends on it. Your future depends on it, your family's future depends on it, other people's families depend on it. Now, what do you want from me? Fine writing? Or do you want to see the goddamned sales curve stop moving down and start moving up?

The primary reason in starting a business part-time is not so much to make a product great. The real reason for starting a part-time business is to make you a great businessperson.

The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.

Confidence is everything in this business.

I always make the business case for sustainability. It's so compelling. Our costs are down, not up. Our products are the best they have ever been. Our people are motivated by a shared higher purpose - esprit de corps to die for. And the goodwill in the marketplace - it's just been astonishing.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth — one shred of evidence.

Make your customers comfortable and they will give you their lives.

There is indeed a business like show business. It's the news.

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.