A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is read more

A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

You foolish man, you don't even know your own foolish business.
- Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl read more

You foolish man, you don't even know your own foolish business.
- Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield,

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing read more

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.

For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.

Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. read more

Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man has a moral right to withhold his support from an organization that is striving to improve conditions within his sphere.

Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to Dispatch than Method.

Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to Dispatch than Method.

A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant read more

A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.).

I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I read more

I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.