Exchange ideas frequently.
Salesmanship is limitless. Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople.
The disciplined are free.
The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.
Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don’t live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don’t be an automaton.
Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.
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.
It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression.
Our modern industrialism, changed to motives of public service, will provide means to remove every injustice that gives soil for prejudice.
The golden rule for every businessman is this: Put yourself in your customer’s place.
I never insisted that I was a good student.
Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
No one loses anything by raising wages as soon as he is able. It has always paid us. Low wages are the most costly any employer can pay. It is like using low-grade material–the waste makes it very expensive in the end. There is no economy in cheap labor or cheap material. The hardest thing I ever had to do was to reduce wages. I think we were the last big company to come to it. Now I am mighty glad that wages are climbing again.
On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.
It’s all too easy to miss out on the important moments in life because you’re too busy staring at your phone.
This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.
It’s true we’ve got some fantastic clients. We’re very fortunate to be connected with the movers and shakers of all the global cities of the world. You can usually tell when we’ve got a client in here because their bodyguards are all over the place: two outside the front door, two in the lobby, one in the liftÂ…
