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A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.
There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them.
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
Sell the benefit, not your company or the product. People buy results, not features.
I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.
The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection.
I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
If you're looking where everybody else is looking, you're looking in the wrong spot.
Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.
It's amazing how much you can get done if you don't worry about who gets the credit.
Regardless of how well a studio is run, it's only as good as the product it produces.
There are three rules for running a business; fortunately, we don't know any of them.
The time has come when advertising has in some hands reached the status of a science.
If someone asks you for something, provide them with a clear "No" or a delivery date.
You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.
My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.
You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.
Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.
The closer you get to your ultimate customer, the more you learn about your business.
I don't believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right.
If you pretend that business is beyond morality, that's the kind of morality you get.
Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.
If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.
Rather than having small smart tricks to get by, focus on holding on and persevering.
When you do more than you're paid for eventually you'll be paid for more than you do.
My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.
Whatever business you are in, every company can shoot for the start in their own way.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.
There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.
For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, 'Think big but start small.'
Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
We spend most of our lives working. So why do so few people have a good time doing it?
Advertisements may be evaluated scientifically; they cannot be created scientifically.
If we achieve our sustainability targets and no one else follows, we will have failed.
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
Businesses are successful because someone makes the sacrifices other are unwilling to.
The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.