Cutting wages is not the way to recovery. Raise wages and improve the product.
No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn’t.
Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
I don’t make deals for the money. I’ve got enough, much more than I’ll ever need. I do it to do it.
I live on a plane. I like to visit London. If I had to think where I could live if not Moscow, London would be my first choice, and second would be New York. In Moscow I feel most comfortable. I’m used to four different seasons; it’s difficult for people in London to understand. People brought up in Russia like my kids want to play in the snow.
The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.
Depressions aren’t acts of God; like wars, they are the work of a small group of men who profit by them.
The union organizers are asking us to sit still while it sells our men the jobs that have always been free.
No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.
What America needs most is aviation.
Employers only handle the money it is the customer who pays the wages.
I started the site when I was 19. I didn’t know much about business back then.
Mark my word: A combination airplane and motor car is coming.
If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.
Did I have a problem with lying to get the job? None whatsoever.
I have very good executives and great children. They’re very good.
If you love what you do, if you love going to the office, if you really like it – not just say it, but really like it – it keeps you young and energised. I really love what I do.
Entrepreneurs are always taking feedback, especially from their customers, bankers, workers, and sales force. Without straightforward feedback, entrepreneurs cannot make sound decisions.
Edison, to a greater extent than has ever been recognized, is the father of American industrial methods.
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.
If you find out what men want and give them that, you are pleasing them. If you find out what is good for them and give them that, you are performing a service. That’s what we are trying to do.
