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.

Business dispatched is business well done, But business hurried is business ill done.

Business dispatched is business well done, But business hurried is business ill done.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not read more

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.

The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what read more

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.