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30% of all people will never believe you. Do not allow your colleagues and employees to work for you. Instead, let them work for a common goal.

A big business man was telling Henry Ford about a coach driver of super-expertness with his whip. The driver was telling how he could flick a fly off his horse's ear with his whip-and, a fly alighting just then, he promptly did so. Next he spied a grasshopper beside the road, and he flicked it off with equal dexterity. A little further along the road the passenger noticed an insect on a bush, and nudged the driver to get him. Not on your life, replied the master of the whip. That there insect is a hornet sitting on his nest with an organization behind him. I leave him alone.

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

A Bit of Craziness Is Good for Business

Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.

About three million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is - it is what consumers tell each other it is.

A brand strategy can enable, sometimes crucially, the potential of an innovation to be realised. There are times when you literally need to brand it or lose it.

A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range. Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.

A business must have a conscience as well as a counting house.

A campaign, like a brand, is not just a number of bits put together - a claim here, a pack shot there, a reason why somewhere else. If we try to produce it by the atomistic approach, we will end up with a sort of Identikit brand. It will be a perfect description of the structure of the brand, as the Identikit can describe the contours of the face. But it won't be the same thing. The brand will never come to life.

A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its forms.

A business model that hasn't been tried before is always interesting, even if it's likely to fail.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.

A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not understand (or want to understand) the profit motive. In short, they are subversives.

A business exists because the consumer is willing to pay you his money. You run a business to satisfy the consumer. That isn't marketing. That goes way beyond marketing.

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next

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.

Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties.

Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee you are a business with one employee, you. Nobody owes you a career. You own it, as a sole proprietor.

Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world

Accounting is the language of business.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

A committee of three can accomplish much if two don't show up.

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.

A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.

A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.

Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.

Activate your fans, don’t just collect them like baseball cards.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Actually I did not invent the seven habits, they are universal principles and most of what I wrote about is just common sense. I am embarrassed when people talk about the Covey Habits, and dislike the idea of being some sort of guru.

A customer votes everyday with his dollar. Our job is make sure he votes for us.

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

Adopt and change before any major trends or changes.

Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle.

Advertising in the final analysis should be news. If it is not news it is worthless.

Advertising and the free society are closely connected. Advertising helps to make a free society remain so by increasing competition, and by helping to maintain the freedom of the mass media themselves. The free society is one where advertising and advertising agencies are likely to be in considerable demand, though it is true that even in a totally centralist society there would still be a need for organisations and people to have access to mass communication media.

Advertising is in essence simply a means of communication through mass media which is available to anyone who can pay for it. It is, in this sense, rather like electricity, which can be used to work a refrigerator or a dentist's drill.

Advertising says to people, 'Here's what we've got. Here's what it will do for you. Here's how to get it.'

Advertisements may be evaluated scientifically; they cannot be created scientifically.

Advertising is fundamental to the accessibility, affordability and dynamism of the internet, helping to pay for much of the content and services we all enjoy and use for free.