Business is really more agreeable than pleasure: it interests the whole mind ... but it does not look as if read more

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure: it interests the whole mind ... but it does not look as if it did.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on read more

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around read more

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your read more

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

Swear, food, or starve; for the dilemma's even;
A tradesman thou! and hope to go to heaven?

Swear, food, or starve; for the dilemma's even;
A tradesman thou! and hope to go to heaven?

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing read more

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive read more

Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.