Businessman Quotes

Finding an excuse not to buy a brand can be just as enjoyable as finding an excuse to buy one. That, too, is human nature.

David F. D'Alessandro

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)

The greater the handicap, the greater the triumph.

John H. Johnson

This past election, the Democrats used every personal attack, including charges of racism, against President Trump. He then won a landslide victory on a straightforward platform of economic nationalism. As long as the Democrats fail to understand this, they will continue to lose. But leftist elites do not value history, so why would they learn from history?

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

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

My soul feels free to travel for the welfare of my fellow creatures both here and hereafter.

Jobs will come back when the economy recovers, but they will never be the same.

If nothing else will do to sever me from my sins, Lord, send me such sore and trying calamities as shall awake me from earthly slumbers. It must always be best to be alive to Thee, whatever be the quickening instrument.

Robert E. Murray

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

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.

Only 20 countries — whose populations are smaller than Taiwan's — in the world recognize the Republic of China (ROC). What is the meaning of their recognition of the ROC?

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

Being successful entails being able to not only get along with people, but also to give something back

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

There is no jungle in the whole of Africa like the jungle of the City of London.

Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.

Charles Saatchi