American Businessman Quotes

If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.'

Robert Townsend (author)

To be a success in advertising you must want to fill other people with a passion for possession.

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

The book is the greatest interactive medium of all time. You can underline it, write in the margins, fold down a page, skip ahead. And you can take it anywhere.

If I were asked for a one line answer to the question 'What makes a woman good in bed?' I would say, 'A man who is good in bed.'

Advanced engineering always, like advanced everything else, brings down upon it the discredit of ridicule of minds who cannot see so far.

Alfred P. Sloan

The wonderful thing about research is that the more of it you do, the more of it there is left to do.

Unions, communities, people, everybody's going to have to learn to accept that in the United States you have a capitalist society, and that capitalism, from a business viewpoint, is survival of the most productive.

Don Blankenship

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

I have a bond with tailors. It's not because I'm a tailor myself but because they know I care about how they experience their jobs.

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the lathe of the past.

A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67.

Norman R. Augustine

We may go out of business. I hope we don't, but if we do, I want people to say, 'What a shame! They were building the best cars and trucks in the world.'.

Philip Caldwell

I feel like I'm 80 years young. Make life exciting and you live longer.

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.

Healthy families are our greatest national resource.

Edwin Gould, Sr.

Motivation begins with the job interview. If you hire the wrong person, you will never be able to motivate him or her, no matter how hard you try.

The company that consistently makes and implements decisions rapidly gains a tremendous, often decisive, competitive advantage.

We are in the grip of the second managerial revolution, one that's very different from the first. The first was about a transfer of power. This one is about an access of freedom.

James A. Champy

I remember one day in August of 2003 I made the decision to become (near) vegan and that once the decision was made I felt great emotional alignment within my heart. I knew this was the right thing for me to do and I also knew that I was making a decision that I would be committed to for the rest of my life. At last my beliefs and my ethics had come into alignment.

John Mackey (businessman)

Liberals love the first amendment until you say something they don't agree with.

Donald Trump Jr.

My father's simple message - it's not an anti-Muslim message, it's [an] anti-terror message, you know, we have ISIS and they're running in rampant around the world and we have to do something about it.

A bride burns her bridges, having fallen in love, and drowns in marriage.

Early one morning in the winter of 1906-7, Henry Ford dropped in at the pattern department of the Piquette Avenue plant to see me. 'Come with me, Charlie,' he said, 'I want to show you something.'

Charles E. Sorensen

In the phrase "quality control" the word quality does not have the popular meaning of "best" in any absolute sense. It means "best for certain customer conditions." These conditions are (a) the actual use and (b) the selling price of the product. Product quality cannot be thought of apart from product cost.

Armand V. Feigenbaum

Make all you can honestly ; save all you can prudently ; give all you can wisely.