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A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them.
A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
We think the ownership culture is very important, so we like to invest in businesses whose leaders are also owners.
Jack Welch is someone who I have always admired. In India, Narayana Murthy is someone who I have great respect for.
Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.
There is one element that is worth its weight in gold and that is LOYALTY. It will cover a multitude of weaknesses.
Excellent value relative to the week investment of time....To my mind, this is the definitive course on leadership.
You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.
Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?
Love is what makes me live, quite simply. It's the only thing that makes me work. It made me become what I am today.
You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.
The longer an article is in the process of manufacture and the more it is moved about, the greater its ultimate cost.
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
Loving dogs is a question of anthropomorphism. We become attached to dogs because of the feelings we project on them.
In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder, but is in fact the very purpose of its existence.
I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in real life.
There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.
In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.
Under our stable and committed ownership, PartnerRe will continue to develop as a leading independent global reinsurer.
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.
An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.
Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.
Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.
An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.
My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer-but it was because of what my grandfather did to him.
The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor.
It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression.
There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.
Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it.
Build wealth as a by product of your business success. If wealth is your only objective in business, you will probably fail.
Della Valle is worried about RCS? RCS is a company that is doing well; I don't think that Della Valle is worried about this.
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself
Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.
To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.
The culture of caring and giving permeates many Indian families. In their own way, they are engaged in philanthropic pursuits.
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
My biggest satisfaction was to learn, inexperienced as I was, that it is possible to find ways out of the deepest difficulties.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. It's simple, fantasize, rehearse, then go out into the world and DO IT!
The whole key of the profitable everyday living will be to discover out what's one's future to try and do, and after that do it.
If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.
That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.
A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders.