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It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.
Sep 10, 2025
Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
All lasting business is built on friendship.
I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
Everyone has an idea, but it's really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you with the idea.
If you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl, but keep moving forward!
My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself
Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.
My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had - everyday I'm learning something new.
The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
Put yourself in your customer's place.
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.
There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
There is only one boss. The customer.
If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
Customer satisfaction is worthless. Customer loyalty is priceless.
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.
Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
High expectations are the key to everything.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
Women have always been the strong ones of the world.
If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.