capitalism

The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.

We have yet to find a significant case where the company did not move in the direction of the chief executive's home.

It is not the employer who pays wages - he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to a judicious use of sabotage.

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

Christmas is over and Business is Business.

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure it interests the whole mind . . . more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

Big business is basic to the very life of this country and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction.

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate secretly and unobserved an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

After an eight-hour day workers require three overtime hours to produce two regular hours of results.

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

It might be termed the Law of Triviality. Briefly stated it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in adverse proportion to the sum involved.

The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

Labour is not a commodity or a standard or a means to an ulterior end but an end in itself.

You are never giving nor can you ever give enough service.

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.

One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.