The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

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

If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.

I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.

Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a torch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness, you'll upgrade it, you'll fill it with prestige and power.

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts.

The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’

The one hand trying to wash itself is a pitiful spectacle, but when one hand washes the other, power is increased, and it becomes a force to be reckoned with.

I had made the religion of service my own, as I felt that God could be realized only through service.

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.