I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.
The only honest measure of your success is what you are doing compared to your true potential.
The great enemy of communication is the illusion of it.
The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.
Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.
Without hard work, opportunity is nothing.
A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
There is a master key to success with which no man can fail. Its name is simplicity ... reducing to the simplest possible terms every problem.
Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
By affirming solemnly that prosperity will continue, it is believed, one can help insure that prosperity will in fact continue. Especially among businessmen the faith in the efficacy of such incantation is very great.
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ΄Whose?΄
At IBM everybody sells! Every employee has been trained to think that the customer comes first - everybody from the CEO, to the people in finance, to the receptionists, to those who work in manufacturing.
Never invest in a going concern until you know which way it is going.
The smaller the function, the greater the management.
The point is, ladies and gentleman,
that GREED, for lack of a better word, is GOOD.
Greed is right. Greed works.
The single most wasteful thing you can do in marketing is try to change a mind.
Choose your customers, choose your future.
What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.