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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service, by the idea that "he profits most read more
Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service, by the idea that "he profits most who serves best," and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying. -B. F. Harris.
Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.
Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.
A manufacturing district . . . sends out, as it were, suckers
into all its neighborhood.
A manufacturing district . . . sends out, as it were, suckers
into all its neighborhood.
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to Dispatch than Method.
Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to Dispatch than Method.
They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor
excommunicated, for they have no souls.
They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor
excommunicated, for they have no souls.
I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I read more
I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.
Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.
Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.
He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.