capitalism

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Don't gamble take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up then sell it. If it don't go up don't buy it.

Business is more exciting than any game.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Few have heard of Fra Luca Parioli the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping but he has probably had more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behaviour that is often considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

One of the best-kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.

Whose bread I eat his song I sing.

In the history of enterprise most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education - not in the classroom where the old ways are taught but in the factories and labs where new ways are wrought ... nothing has been so rare in recent years as an Ivy League graduate who has made a significant innovation in American enterprise.

Capital is past savings accumulated for future production.

Remember that when an employee enters your office he is in a strange land.

Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.

The manager with the in-basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of activities that fail to excite him.

Benefits should be granted little by little so that they may be better enjoyed.