Business Quotes - Page 78

No man is great if he thinks he is.

In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

Would your reply possibly be this? Well, it all depends on what my tax rate will be on the gain you're saying we're going to make. If the taxes are too high, I would rather leave the money in my savings account, earning a quarter of 1 percent. Only in Grover Norquist's imagination does such a response exist.

I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it inappropriate for even an exceptionally profitable company to fund an operation once it appears to have unending losses in prospect. Adam Smith would disagree with my first proposition and Karl Marx would disagree with my second; the middle ground is the only position that leaves me comfortable.

My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization.

A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.

Don't be cocky. Don't be flashy. There's always someone better than you.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!

I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

Positioned on my dresser, that white-as-snow rose is a personal message to me. It speaks of unfinished business. It whispers, I can find you. I can reach you. Perhaps I am watching you now.

The point to remember about selling things is that, as well as creating atmosphere and excitement around your products, you've got to know what you're selling.

The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it.

Yesterday I saw a chicken crossing the road. I asked it why. It told me it was none of my business.

The tragedy is that Dell didn't win it - we lost it.

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.

If I were in this business only for the business, I wouldn't be in this business.

It has become dramatically clear that the foundation of corporate integrity is personal integrity.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

I always entertain great hopes.

The airline business is fast-paced, high risk, and highly leveraged. It puts a premium on things I like to do. I think I communicate well. And I am very good at detail. I love detail.

We must intertwine business and ethics in a very fundamental way.