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The #1 guideline to success is you must be in business for yourself. When you work for someone else, you sell your time at wholesale to your employer, who then re-sells it at retail to the customer.

That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

The 10 or 12 artists I have known really well all my life are at least as competitive as professional athletes. They may express it in slightly different terms, but you look at the Jackson Pollocks et al., and they are as interested in wall space in the galleries as Joe Montana is in the percentage of completed passes. So the notion that symphonic conducting, or stage play, or pure art, is not a competitive business is real bullshit.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

The ability to sign a cheque is the least reliable guide to a company's fitness.

The acceleration of the marketing process, the concentrating of manufacturing, greater diversification, increased international competition, have in turn speeded up product improvements, product innovations and new product introductions. The stakes are high, the failures costly.

The advertising man is a liaison between the products of business and the mind of the nation. He must know both before he can serve either.

The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.

The American business man cannot consider his work done when he views the income balance in black at the end of an accounting period. It is necessary for him to trace the social incidence of the figures that appear in his statement and prove to the general public that his management has not only been profitable in the accounting sense but salutary in terms of popular benefits.

The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic history of mankind. What reward did they receive from our culture and its intellectuals? The position of a hated, persecuted minority. The position of a scapegoat for the evils of the bureaucrats.

The American Republic and American business are Siamese twins; they came out of the same womb at the same time; they are born in the same principles and when American business dies, the American Republic will die, and when the American Republic dies, American business will die.

The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me

The answer is simple, and harsh. The market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidize it. So the children died because their mothers and their fathers had no power in the market and no voice in the system.

The application process changes the list of who applies. Your applicants reflect your methods.

The artist's business requires an involvement in practically everything... The total scope of information he receives day after day is of concern.

The arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL.

The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.

The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

The bankers just got a good cussing by everybody for loaning too much money. Well, they got some awful nice buildings. So when a banker fails, he fails in splendor.

The basic prescription for preventing deflation is therefore straightforward, at least in principle: Use monetary and fiscal policy as needed to support aggregate spending, in a manner as nearly consistent as possible with full utilization of economic resources and low and stable inflation. In other words, the best way to get out of trouble is not to get into it in the first place.

The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.

The best and most evolved technologies are those that do not destroy the very base on which we live

The best advice I could give anyone is to spend your time working on whatever you are passionate about in life.

The best decision is the right decision. The next best decision is the wrong decision. The worst decision is no decision.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.

The best time to do great customer service is when a customer is upset.

The best way of learning about anything is by doing.

The best way to make money in business is not to think too much about making it.

The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.

The best vision is insight.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

The biggest enemy of management is indifference. It's when people don't give a damn

The biggest mistake you could ever make is to think you work for anyone but yourself

The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

The biggest public fallacy is that the market is always right. The market is nearly always wrong. I can assure you of that.

The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it's what goes on inside your own head

The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory.

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

The boundaries of design are the same as the problem of perception.

The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.

The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.

The bottom line is in heaven!

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.