Businessman Quotes

Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good, but if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Clint Murchison, Jr.

Oh, he's football crazy, he's football mad
And the football it has robbed him o' the wee bit sense he had.
And it would take a dozen skivvies, his clothes to wash and scrub,
Since our Jock became a member of that terrible football club.

The House of Commons is the greatest closed shop of all…For the purposes of government, a country of 55 million people is forced to depend on a talent pool which could not sustain a single multinational company.

If Florence Nightingale were carrying her lamp through the corridors of the NHS today she would almost certainly be searching for the people in charge.

We may indeed live yet to see, or at least we may feel some confidence that those who come after us will see, such bodies as oxygen and hydrogen in the liquid, perhaps even in the solid state.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.