Business quotes

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.