Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable to you.

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

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

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.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

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.

Keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

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