In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
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 genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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.