Businessman Quotes

My theory is that when you're young, you should work eighty hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world.

We need to restrain ourselves in what we say about other religions, in how we judge other faiths. We don't need new laws. We cannot restrict freedom of speech. We need to restrict ourselves. Otherwise, in the end, we will be restricted.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

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

Doing the commodity business with China is like drinking coffee. We enjoyed three spoons of sugar per cup for a long time. Suddenly, when that's cut to one and a half spoons, we feel bitter — because it used to be so sweet.

To Philip Larkin who had complained that he could not think of a rhyme for Stoke Poges:

An incontinent man from Stoke Poges
At the theatre would often soak loges.
To take care of that
He'd pee in his hat
Or a chamber pot made in Limoges.

Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet

People can be unreliable and disloyal; possessions can lose their value; jobs that once stimulated you can become boring. But principles remain steady through it all.

You must develop one all-important ability — being able to enlist the help of other people. You have to reach a state where others want to help you. This includes giving credit... which will come back to you a hundredfold. Your reputation stems from what people say when you're not present.

Cecil Howard Green

How do you develop the subconscious of an organization?... There's no time to take decisions deep into the brain—no time to take it to the data warehouse. It has to become a reflex action. We're developing the gut.

Sumit Chowdhury

When companies fail, or fail to grow, it's almost always because they don't invest in the people, the systems, and the processes they need.

When we tell the story about what's happening today with browsers ten years from now, I want the thing that replaces Windows to be Windows. I don't want to wake up in a position one day where the guys at Netscape say, "Isn't Windows just that little thing that we use to put up menus and draw lines? Let's just write our own and suck it up into our client."

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

The thieves may be able to follow the design plans and produce a loom. But we are modifying and improving our looms every day. They do not have the expertise gained from the failures it took to produce the original. We need not be concerned. We need only continue as always, making our improvements.

Kiichiro Toyoda

One voice is tiny, and alone it cannot be heard above the din of politics as usual. The peoples voice, when it cries as one, is a great roar.

The Rule of 72 is useful in determining how fast money will grow. Take the annual return from any investment, expressed as a percentage, and divide it into 72. The result is the number of years it will take to double your money.

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy — they're given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you're not careful, and if you do, it'll probably be to the detriment of your choices.

Promise them not only bargains, but that every article will be found
just what it is guaranteed to be. Use no deception in the smallest
degree - nothing you cannot defend before God or Man.

A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one's work, the pride that makes business an art.

Henry Latham Doherty

Platforma didn't fucked you as much as PiS will. Until your asses will itch out of pain. It is a fucking drama.

Zbigniew Stonoga

You can't breathe for sheer revulsion when you keep finding the bodies of women with bamboo poles thrust up their vaginas. Even old women over 70 are constantly being raped.

Engage the people. Don't try to pass a 2,700 page bill — and even they didn't read it! You and I didn't have time to read it. We're too busy trying to live — send our kids to school. That's why I am only going to allow small bills — three pages. You'll have time to read that one over the dinner table. What does Herman Cain, President Cain talking about in this particular bill?

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

When starting out, ensure your business has adequate capital for growth.

Sudhir Ruparelia

No man ought to be compelled to live where a rose cannot grow.

If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance.

James P. Gorman

Success, in life, is most easily measured by the number of days you are truly happy.