Business Quotes
Business is like a wheelbarrow -- it stands still until someone pushes it.
There is a demand today for men who can make wrong appear right.
Eat and drink with your relatives, but do business with strangers.
The person who has never been cheated cannot be a good businessman.
It is easy to open a store -- the hard part is keeping it open!
We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.
If we decide to take this level of business-creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.
To succeed in business, it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickle when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.
The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pre-test your product with consumers, and pre-test your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.
If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say %, there is a problem.
If, when a businessman speaks of minority employment or air pollution or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.
If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.
I early found that when I worked for myself alone, others alone worked for me, but when I worked for others also, others also worked for me.
It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product which pays the wages.