It is your people who make the ultimate difference. You put the investment into training the people and then, when read more

It is your people who make the ultimate difference. You put the investment into training the people and then, when you get invited to the party with the big boys, that is a unique selling point.

Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and read more

Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

He that is rich is wise.

He that is rich is wise.

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside read more

The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?

The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually read more

The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never read more

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

We've entered an era when very good, competent people aren't getting jobs. One remedy is to stand out, to self-promote. read more

We've entered an era when very good, competent people aren't getting jobs. One remedy is to stand out, to self-promote. If you do, you're going to get the nod over some co-worker.