A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don’t think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.
If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.
Customers don’t expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong.
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.
The secret to success in business, and in life, is to serve others. Put others first in all you do.
Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die.
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
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.
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
The golden rule for every business man is this: “Put yourself in your customer’s place.
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.
If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who’s forging a bullet with your company’s name on it.
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
The superior man understands what is right the inferior man understands what will sell.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.