Business Quotes - Page 71

There are three proven rules for good teeth: brush after every meal; see your dentist twice a year; and mind your own business.

An executive cannot gradually dismiss details. Business is made up of details and I notice that the chief executive who dismisses them is quite likely to dismiss his business. Success is the sum of detail. It might perhaps be pleasing to imagine oneself beyond detail and engaged only in great things, but as I have often observed, if one attends only to great things and lets the little things pass the great things become little; that is, the business shrinks.

Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.

One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence. Ostensibly, their aim is to penalize anti-social acts; actually their aim is to penalize heretical opinions. At least ninety-five Americans out of every 100 believe that this process is honest and even laudable; it is practically impossible to convince them that there is anything evil in it. In other words, they cannot grasp the concept of liberty.

I waited far too long, being optimistic rather than realistic. I also failed to do my homework

To those men and women in business, remember the ultimate end of your work: to make a better product, to create better lives. I ask you to plan for the longer term and avoid that temptation of quick and easy paper profits.

Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die

Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

All glory comes from daring to begin.

The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don't catch horses going around looking like people, do you?

I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.

The image of success is important, but even more important is the ability to focus on solutions instead of on problems. That way, you'll never be thinking like a loser, and you probably won't look like one either.

It has been found that the less an advertisement looks like an advertisement and the more it looks like an editorial, the more readers stop, look, and read.

The urgent can drown out the important.

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.

Good businesses can survive a little bad management.

For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is "take-home pay" because home is the only place they can afford to go with it.

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.

Don't think of yourself as a woman in business.