“All too much of the wage structure has been based on the time workers put in, rather than upon the product put out. The consumer dollar has no interest in how much time it buys-only in the character and quality of the product itself.” Has BeensCharacterInterestBusinessQualityToo MuchProductsStructureDollarsWorkersConsumers Author:Wheeler McMillen
“If you got a dollar, soak it away, put it in a savings bank, bury it, do anything but spend it. Spending when we didn't have it put us where we are today. Saving when we've got it will get us back to where we was before we went cuckoo.” IfsTodayBusinessDollarsSpendingSavingSavingsCuckoos Author:Will Rogers
“Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the people running the company and the people doing the work. They no longer have an inherent feel or a passion about the products. The creative people, who are the ones who care passionately, have to persuade five layers of management to do what they know is the right thing to do.” PeopleKnowsFeelsCareRunningPassionGrowsLosesBusinessCompanyVisionCreativeFiveMiddleProductsManagementDollarsBillionsThings To DoRight ThingLayersInherentEntityWho CaresCreative PeopleInsertMiddle Management Author:Steve Jobs
“If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.” IfsWealthMoneyPowerfulBusinessHumorousDollarsBillionsBillionaireSaving MoneyFunny MoneyFunny Business Author:J. Paul Getty
“Today, National Geographic has a membership side with a magazine and some television side, and they generate about a billion dollars in revenue, and they're profitable. And so at the end of the year they have some bottom line profit which they can then reinvest, because they're running it as a not-for-profit in charitable endeavors.” YearsEndsRunningTodaySidesLinesBusinessTelevisionDollarsBottomProfitBillionsMagazinesEndeavorRevenueBottom LineProfitableCharitableMembershipNational Geographic Author:Steve Case
“Growth isn't central at all, because I'm trying to run this company as if it's going to be here a hundred years from now. And if you take where we are today and add 15% growth, like public companies need to have for their stock to stay up in value, I'd be a multi-trillion-dollar company in 40 years. Which is impossible, of course.” IfsNeedsTryingYearsRunningTodayValuesCoursesGrowthBusinessCompanyImpossibleHundredDollarsAdd Author:Yvon Chouinard
“In the business world, unwise men take more that they give. They do not realize that they are breaking the Universal Law which will eventually break them to an equal extent. It may not be balanced in the form of dollars and cents but in the loss of good-will upon which their future business depends.” MenWorldGivingMayFormLawRealizingLossBusinessBreakDependsEqualUniversalDollarsCentsBalancedGood WillUnwiseBusiness WorldUniversal LawsFuture Business Author:Walter Russell
“Maybe we should be directing our anger elsewhere - like toward Wall Street. Why is it we never think of Big Business when we think of welfare recipients? Companies take more of our tax dollars, and in much more questionable ways, than do those who are trying to heat their apartments with a kerosene stove.” ThinkingWayShouldTryingBigsBusinessCompanyStreetsWallTaxesDollarsWelfareHeatElsewhereApartmentBig BusinessQuestionableStovesTax DollarsWelfare Recipients Author:Michael Moore
“On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.” PeopleBodyBusinessFiveWrittenDesignDollarsAverageAdvertisingCopiesCentsEightyHeadlinesAdvertsGreat AdvertisingAdvertising And MarketingOnline Advertising Author:David Ogilvy
“If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.” IfsInspirationalNextLossBusinessCompanyCenturyCoupleStrategyDollarsInvestmentChinaBillions Author:Jack Welch
“It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.” LifeFunnySuccessChoicesDecisionBusinessMillionsFrontsEasierMajorsDollarsCarpetPresentationMillion DollarsPorchFront Porches Author:Oprah Winfrey
“There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.” I CanScienceSpaceBusinessOne ThingPromiseTaxesProgramDollarsJust OneSpace ExplorationOuter SpaceSpace ProgramRocket ScienceTax Dollars Author:Wernher von Braun
“Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.” IfsMoneyBusinessKnownDollarsInvestingBillionsTraitsBillionaireJerkBuffets Author:Warren Buffett