"If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid."
"If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable."
"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work."
"If you have to forecast, forecast often."
"If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been."
"If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem."
"In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing."
"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later."
"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
"Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results."
"Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network."
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."
"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."
"A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it."
"A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships."
"A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his."
"About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends."
"All lasting business is built on friendship."
"Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures."
"An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission."
"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today."
"An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's."
"And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department."
"Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch."
"As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth."
"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard."
"Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness."
"Business is a combination of war and sport."
"Business is in itself a power."
"Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets."