Business is more exciting than any game.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Don't open a shop unless you like to smile.

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

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