American Businessman Quotes

Customers tend to avoid a restaurant that's going aswamp in its own sludge.

You'll never learn a thing from a competitor weaker than you.

Perhaps the worst software technology of all time was the use of physical lines of code [for metrics]. Continued use of this approach, in the author's opinion, should be considered professional malpractice.

If you're not called crazy when you launch something new, it means you're not thinking BIG enough.

Linda Rottenberg

The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.

There is nothing that makes a man more self-satisfied than a poor memory.

Herbert V. Prochnow

What you want is protection. You want to be safe. What the government does is to try to retaliate after the fact.

If you want to catch a cold, hang out with sick people. If you want to lose, associate with losers. But if you want to become successful, go out of your way to associate with successful people.

Thomas J. Stanley

The higher Virginians seem to venerate themselves as men.

Power, today, comes from sharing information, not withholding it.

Even in those earlier times, finding the really outstanding companies and staying with them through all the fluctuations of a gyrating market proved far more profitable to far more people than did the more colorful practice of trying to buy them cheap and sell them dear.

Philip Arthur Fisher

Flexibility - In all aspects of life, the person with the most varied responses 'wins'.

We suck at dealing with abuse and trolls on the platform and we've sucked at it for years.

People tend to think that in order to start a new business they have to come up with something new and dazzling, but that's a myth - and it's often propagated by venture capitalists.

Gurbaksh Chahal

[Apple] brings to mind the idea of a corporate edifice complex. That's where a successful company builds a monument to its greatness just as it is losing touch with the realities of its market.... The construction of a $5 billion palatial headquarters when the company is — at best — between hit products does reflect a certain corporate arrogance.

Everywhere my sons and I go, we're telling people the good news about Jesus, blowing duck calls, and making people, happy, happy- then down the road we go.

For instance, let us say that a new stock has been listed in the last two or three years and its high was 20, or any other figure, and that such a price was made two or three years ago. If something favorable happens in connection with the company, and the stock starts upward, usually it is safe play to buy the minute it touches a brand new high.

Jesse Lauriston Livermore

Millions of mutual-fund investors sleep well at night, serene in the belief that superior outcomes result from pooling funds with like-minded investors and engaging high-quality investment managers to provide professional insight. The conventional wisdom ends up hopelessly unwise, as evidence shows an overwhelming rate of failure by mutual funds to deliver on promises.

David F. Swensen

The death of Walt Disney is a loss to all the people of the world. In everything he did Walt had an intuitive way of reaching out and touching the hearts and minds of young and old alike. His entertainment was an international language. For more than forty years people have looked to Walt Disney for the finest in family entertainment.

If they had made that longer six-cylinder crankshaft strong enough and had supported it well enough, they would have obtained the smoother action they talks about in their advertisements. But they could not do that, and those early sixes had a very undesirable period vibration at certain speeds. That vibration more than offset the gain that they would have realized, if they had treated the crankshaft properly.

Henry M. Leland

Healthy families are our greatest national resource.

Edwin Gould, Sr.

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.

America has no obligation to let you bring products into this nation without tariff or impost while you exploit the existence of authoritarian governments and environmental arbitrage. A 100% tariff on all of Apple's foreign-produced or assembled products should make the decision easy...

When a beginner wins he feels brilliant and invincible Then he takes wild risk and loses everything.

Alexander Elder

Leaders who want to increase joy and success in the workplace must learn to take most of their personal satisfaction from the achievements of the people they lead, not from the power they exercise.