A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later.
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.