Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
W. Edwards Deming

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Don Marquis

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
B. C. Forbes

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
Scott Adams

So little done, so much to do.
Cecil Rhodes

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Steve Jobs

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Paul Tournier

Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.
Charles A. Jaffe

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Walter Scott

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
Arthur C. Clarke

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.
Rupert Murdoch

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
Michael Korda

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippmann

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
Max de Pree

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
Walter Lippmann

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
Blaine Lee

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Albert Einstein