Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.
One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.
Remember that when an employee enters your office, he is in a strange land.
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
The big unions served a noble purpose once, and bless them for it. Now they're part of the problem and must give way if America is to move and to participate in management and achieve reasonable productivity.
Luck is infatuated with the efficient.
One of the best-kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.
The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.
The corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
The manager with the in-basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of activities that fail to excite him.
To business that we love we rise betime, And go to it with delight.
The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
There is only one social responsibility of business - to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits without deception or fraud.
Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.
Today's sales should be better than yesterday's - and worse than tomorrow's.
Twenty generations ago - around the year 1390 - you had 1,048,576 ancestors. In the 21st generation of your family that number will double again.
We have yet to find a significant case where the company did not move in the direction of the chief executive's home.
You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service.