When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.
Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.
Work is our business; it's success is God s.
You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.
You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.
You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
You can't run a business without taking risks.
You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.
You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.
You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.
You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.
You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.
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