Businessman Quotes

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

I had no idea this was going to be an accurate prediction, but amazingly enough instead of 10 [years] doubling, we got nine over the 10 years, but still followed pretty well along the curve.

We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.

Design isn't just about making things beautiful; it's also about making things work beautifully.

Roger Martin (professor)

Time is the most valuable thing you have - and I'm not just talking about the minutes for which you're paid.

Always remember this Anna, there are no walls, no bolts, no locks that anyone can put on your mind.

I have the courage of my opinions, but I have not the temerity to give a political blank cheque to Lord Salisbury.

George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen

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

James P. Gorman

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.

This airline [Alitalia] is cursed and only an exorcist can save it.

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.

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

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

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

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

Sudhir Ruparelia

[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.

If one individual, or one class, can call in the aid of authority to ward off the effects of competition, it acquires a privilege and at the cost of the whole community; it can make sure of profits not altogether due to the productive services rendered, but composed in part of an actual tax upon consumers for its private profit' which tax it commonly shares with the authority that thus unjustly lent its support.

Jean-Baptiste Say

The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Even a brief interaction can change the way people think about themselves, their leaders, and the future. Each of those many connections you make has the potential to become a high point or a low point in someone's day.

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.

I boxed in the amateurs before getting into submission fighting and got hooked. Actually, I owned three boxing gyms in Vegas. I trained and managed fighters and had a sports management company. One day I met Tito Ortiz and Chuck Liddell, who I started representing, and I got into this huge contract negotiation with Bob Meyerwitz, the former owner of Tito Ortiz's contract. Through that, Bob and I developed a mutual respect for one another.

To understand the mindset of the connected consumer, one must realize that everything begins with search and intent.

If reality is not what you want it to be, change it. You should not accept anything blindly, not death, not immortality.

Hannu Rajaniemi

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.

The geologist commences where the astronomer ends.

Joseph Prestwich