Businessman Quotes

We knew we did not want to record at Impulse Studios again, after the experience of recording in a 'real' studio in London for the Radio One session we did.

If one student is unable to get online, it cripples that student's team and puts the whole course in jeopardy.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

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.

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

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

There are no crown princes at Ford.

When we're in a peak, we make a ton of money, and as soon as we make a ton of money, we're desperately looking for a way to spend it. And we diversify into areas that, frankly, we don't know how to run very well.

We took our eye off the ball as a company.