Quotes
Quotes about Sin
Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.
If we devote our time disparaging the products of our business rivals, we hurt business generally, reduce confidence, and increase discontent.
We do not hear the term "compassionate" applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results in the measurable form of jobs created, lives enriched, communities built, living standards raised, and poverty healed, a handful of capitalists has done infinitely more for mankind than all the self-serving politicians, academics, social workers, and religionists who march under the banner of "compassion".
The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.
Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result from the transformation of matter in form, location, or availability (intellectually or temporally). It is these transformations that create economic benefits valued by consumers, and whoever arranges such transformations contributes to the value of things, whether his hands actually come into contact with physical objects or not.
The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in the general population. On the contrary, the increasingly complex processes tend to lead to increasingly simple and easily understood products. The genius of mass production is precisely in its making more products more accessible, both economically and intellectually to more people.
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes...
Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.
Most people...find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
You can't run a business without taking risks.
Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most who serves best" and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.
There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
If you're not a white male, consider sales seriously. Most employers, regardless of how sexist or racist they may be, will pay for any sales they can get. And they care little for the color or gender of the person who brings that business to the firm. Most will be glad to get the business even if it comes from a green, bisexual Martian.
Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope.
A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim.
The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
Money is the sinews of love, as of war.
I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.
Business is more exciting than any game.
