Quotes in business
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
The chief business of the American people is business.
Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.
There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.
Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific method, on the other hand, create a culture of testing and inquiry that can't help but push you forward.
There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey.
You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.
No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.