Business Quotes
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. Real riches are the riches possessed inside. Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader. Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart. So little done, so much to do. Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each. Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own. The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
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