Businesses are successful because someone makes the sacrifices others are unwilling to.
Business is like a man rowing a boat upstream. He has no choice; he must go ahead or he will go back.
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.).
Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service, by the idea that "he profits most who serves best," and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying. -B. F. Harris.
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'.
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.
Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe, But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?
All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower.
If you make a habit of buying things you do not need, you will soon be selling things you do.
Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks. [Fr., Calumniez, calumniez; il en reste toujours quelque chose.]
Praise her but for this her without-door form-- Which on my faith deserves high speech--and straight The shrug, the hum or ha, these pretty brands That calumny doth use--O, I am out, That mercy does, for calumny will sear Virtue itself--these shrugs, these hums and ha's, When you have said she's goodly, come between Ere you can say she's honest.
His friends he loved. His direst earthly foes-- Cats--I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, Mine eyes the tail that wagged contempt at Fate.
A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!
If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.
Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge; For, on their answer, will we set on them, And God befriend us as our cause is just!
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by ;degrees, the consequences will be the same.
A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.
Beware of one who flatters unduly; he will also censure unjustly.
Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening? [Lat., An id exploratum cuiquam potest esse, quomodo sese habitarum sit corpus, non dico ad annum sed ad vesperam?]
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.
To change one's life: 1. Starte immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions. -William James.
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstacy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. -I. Krishnamurti.