Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surpri….

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning..

One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about i….

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it..

..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the bible (I read the New T….

DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night, or day improper - the fo….

If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail..

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than….

Basic research is like shooting an arrow in the air and, where it lands, painting a target..

We seem to forget that everything that is good for the environment is a job. Solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind turbines don't manufacture th….

If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal..

Your customers are the customers of other brands who occasionally buy you..

The trouble with not being into social networking is that people think you're anti-social when you're only anti-networking..

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pu….

All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good l….

Strategy doesn't change when hard times arrive. Consumers' willingness to try, and to stay loyal, remains, the goal. Winners know this; their brand f….

Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture..

You remove heavy metals out of the ground and you turn that into tables, and houses and bridges and dreams for people in the developing world. I love….

The time you want the map... is before you enter the woods.

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines..

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force..