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You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

You can never say all the tricks have been done. Someone always shows you something you didn't know. Every year you think, 'Gee, I didn't think you could do that'.

You cannot choose your battlefield, The Gods do that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew.

You cannot innovate by copying.

You cannot design better products by staying in the office.

You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let's say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.

You cannot sell a man who isn't listening; word of mouth is the best medium of all; and dullness won't sell your product, but neither will irrelevant brilliance.

You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.

You can't delegate growth or customer satisfaction.

You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.

You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.

You can't do a good business with a bad person. Find the right people to work with and you can't go wrong.

You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause!

You can't know it all. No matter how smart you are, no matter how comprehensive your education, no matter how wide ranging your experience, there is simply no way to acquire all the wisdom you need to make your business thrive.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

You can't run a without taking risks.

You can't overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of the mistakes I've made, there has been this common theme of inadequate planning beforehand. You really can't over-prepare in business!

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.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

You could be the World's greatest orator and if you don't say anything while orating, they are going to walk out on you after a while.

You could also say that a precious brand often has rituals associated with it. They reinforce the specialness of the brand. And of course the brand owner can help ensure those rituals are created.

You could raise the price of, say, a bottle of ketchup to $1.03 instead of $1, and no one would know. Raising prices just 3% per product would add 50% to your pretax income. Why not do it? It's like heroin: You do a little and you want a little bit more. Raising prices is the easy way.

You'd better make it your business to understand the market. The ability to charm or play the game is useful.

You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.

You can buy attention (advertising). You can beg for attention from the media (PR). You can bug people one at a time to get attention (sales). Or you can earn attention by creating something interesting and valuable and then publishing it online for free.

You do not choose the life you will experience ahead of time. You may select the persons, places and events - the conditions and circumstances, the challenges, the opportunities and options - with which to create experiences. What you create with these is your business.

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.

You don't need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

You have a wonderful organization. I understand you have ten thousand here. And if you count the ones in the various federal prisons, it brings your total membership up to around thirty thousand.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

You have to be ready for hard work and frugal spending to get the idea off the ground.

You have to have faith that if you want people to like your brand, you have to do likeable things. There has to be some degree of trust that, if you're an enjoyable brand, people will want to spend time with you.

You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard it came to civilization through Venice which of course was once the great commercial power in the Mediterranean. However, double entry bookkeeping was a hell of an invention.

You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure.

You have to understand who you are and figure out a way to communicate it. It might be in a different industry, but it's about what pumps the blood through your veins, what makes you excited, what pushes your buttons. And then discovering the best way to communicate that, no matter how big or small; it's what you stand for, what you believe in, and what reflects who you are.

You have to have a strong sense of self in this business - otherwise they're going to spit you out.

You have to understand you cannot have faith and fear at the same time; you can only have one or the other.

You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys. As will you be. Riding the American range. Riding herd on the unending torrent of financial data. The eddies, cataracts, arranged variations, fractious minutiae. You order the data, shepherd it, direct its flow, lead it where it's needed ... You deal in facts, gentlemen, for which there has been a market since man first crept from the primeval slurry.

You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done.

You know honestly, I enjoy working with everyone because remember, these were all real pros that had been around the business a long time.

You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.

You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy, because it sells movies on 'behind the scenes' footage. It's seeing the secrets of how the movies are made, and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plots a secret.

You know, Mrs. Fields was never a business. It was a part of me...and I never separated, oh, well, business from personal because to me they all blended together.

You know we're in a business where things are just unpredictable. You don't know what's going to happen...we were lucky Blessed, I think is a better way to put it.