There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?
Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.
The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.
What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.