“Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business; the trailer seldom goes far.” LittlesBusinessSecretConditionsTrailers Author:Charles M. Schwab
“Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound and there is nothing in the business situation to warrant the destruction of values that has taken place on the exchanges during the past week, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks. We are continuing and will continue our purchases in substantial amounts at levels which we believe represent sound investment values.” BelieveCountryPastValuesSoundLevelsCommonBusinessSituationTakenWeekConditionsSonAmountDestructionFundamentalsInvestmentMy SonContinuingWarrantsPurchasing Author:John D. Rockefeller
“Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.” PeopleIfsShouldTwoProblemLastsSidesDecisionBusinessMistakeConditionsPicksCome UpSolveCompromiseWinnerDepartmentAccountabilityDivisionBoth SidesResortsUp To You Book:Further Up the Organization Source: Further Up the Organization
“American business men must learn human nature to the point of accepting as necessary the Rabble Rouser of the Right. . . . To get fast action somebody must stir millions to genuine anger over conditions which are adversely affecting their lives.” MenLifeHumansActionBusinessAcceptingMillionsLearningConditionsHuman NatureGenuineBusiness ManAmerican Business Author:Walter B. Pitkin
“... overconfidence in one's own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This vanity, combined with extreme ignorance of conditions the knowledge of which is the very A B C of business and of life, produces more shipwrecks and heartaches than any other part of our mental make-up.” EvilAbilityBusinessConditionsProduceIgnoranceRootsExtremesVanityHeartacheCharacteristicsEgoismShipwreckOverconfidence Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“Commercialism is the blemish on the fair face of American life. Fighting against the terrible conditions of the explorer and pioneer, our forefathers had little time to think of beauty. Hearts and heads became as hardened to the more gracious things of life as did their bodies against physical hardship. Little by little, as nature yielded before the dynamite of their wills, life began to express itself in the same hard terms, and the great commerce of a New World bent everything to its indomitable will.” ThinkingWorldHeartLittlesHardBodyFacesFightingTermBusinessConditionsTerribleFairsHardshipNew WorldCommerceBentGraciousPioneersLittle TimeExplorersTime To ThinkAmerican LifeForefathersHardenedDynamiteHead And HeartCommercialismIndomitableIndomitable Will Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.” YearsPersonsDoneSuccessNextFoundLiteratureBusinessLearningSuccessfulHeardTeachingConditionsNext YearSuccessful PersonAccepting Reality Author:E. W. Howe