Famous quotes by Businessman

"Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article"

"The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people"

"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"

"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it"

"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"

"You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people"

"China gets their oil from Libya. Why isn't China involved? They're going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over the world economically. And we're spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on policing the world. Why isn't China involved with Libya? That - we don't get oil from Libya, China does"

"We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn"

"People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year"

"Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'"

"The point is that you can't be too greedy"

"It's always good to be underestimated"

"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life"

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do"

"The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about"

"I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps"

"Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless"

"Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn"

"We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact"

"The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment"

"The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay"

"I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent"

"You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years"

"Our philosophy is that we care about people first"

"As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession"

"I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then"

"The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it's actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions... If people feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things, then we're failing them"

"While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love"

"Every economy is uncertain. Referring to this or any economy as "uncertain" is an unnecessary and pessimistic redundancy"

"Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper"