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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.
Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.
Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.
When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags
after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold read more
When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags
after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and
barren.
Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive read more
Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
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.
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.
The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly read more
The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
In every age and clime we see,
Two of a trade can ne'er agree.
In every age and clime we see,
Two of a trade can ne'er agree.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around read more
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.