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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.
Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.
Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.
Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is candy.
Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is candy.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from read more
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because read more
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
criminal, n. A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
criminal, n. A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
When someone gives the hospital a gift of $5 and you know he can afford less than that, thank him read more
When someone gives the hospital a gift of $5 and you know he can afford less than that, thank him profusely. When someone gives the hospital a gift of $5,000 and you know he could afford five times that, say "that will help." -Robert H. Schullder.
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,
