No man becomes rich without himself enriching others.
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.
What do I care about the law? Ain't I got the power?
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
The closest thing to a friend you can have in business is someone who finds it in their interest to be your friend.
It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee, and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.
Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.
I have learned that you can't have good advertising without a good client, that you can't keep a good client without good advertising.
A successful enterprise depends upon men who, having the means, have the will to risk them.
The first thing is character. Before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it.
Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.
The only purpose of advertising is to make sales. It is profitable or unprofitable according to its actual sales.
The maker who knows his article best would be the best advertising man, if only his interests did not warp his view.
Advertising is multiplied salesmanship. It may appeal to thousands while the salesman talks to one.
Take care of the people, the products, and the profits — in that order.
The fatal assumption is: if you understand the technical work of a business, you understand a business that does that technical work.
Your business is not your life. Your business and your life are two totally separate things.
A strategy is a coordinated and integrated set of five choices: a winning aspiration, where to play, how to win, core capabilities, and management systems.
When you make something, you always make something else. Just because you can't sell the main dish doesn't mean you can't sell the by-products.
Quality is the best business plan.
Your margin is my opportunity.
Most business owners are running their business by the seat of their pants. What's needed is a system.
Every successful business creates or provides something of value that other people want or need at a price they're willing to pay.
Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.
Growth sucks cash. The number one reason companies fail is they run out of cash.
A business that is not profitable from day one is a hobby.
Go for a business that any idiot can run — because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
Opinions are worthless. You want facts and commitments.
You cannot improve a business model that you do not understand.
Design an organization that continuously challenges its own business model.
