If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember read more

If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like.

Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further read more

Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.

The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today.

The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today.

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for read more

The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in the general population. On the contrary, the increasingly complex processes tend to lead to increasingly simple and easily understood products. The genius of mass production is precisely in its making more products more accessible, both economically and intellectually to more people.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, read more

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides read more

Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.

When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes read more

When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition with ourselves leaves unimpaired our benevolence toward our fellow men.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment read more

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.