Business Quotes - Page 91

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.

The first law of economics is that when the price goes up, consumption comes down. This is a divine law.

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'

Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men.

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

We few. We happy few. We band of brothers, for he today That sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother.

The purest treasure mortal times can afford is a spotless reputation.

Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work. Whatever your calling, master all its bearings and details, its principles, instruments and applications. Method is essential if you would get through your work easily and with economy of time.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Research can trap you into the past.

You cannot sell a man who isn't listening; word of mouth is the best medium of all; and dullness won't sell your product, but neither will irrelevant brilliance.

Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it.

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

I would never make a good economist. You know, an economist is a man that can tell you anything about — well, he will tell you what can happen under any given condition — and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's, too.

Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.