Quotes by American Authors - Page 202

No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will.
Thomas Jefferson
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
Walt Whitman
Little boats should keep near shore.
Benjamin Franklin
Christian Science explains all cause and effect as mental not physical.
Mary Baker Eddy
Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.
Benjamin Franklin
For want of a nail the shoe was lost for want of a shoe the horse was lost and for want of a horse the rider was lost being overtaken and slain by the enemy all for want of care about a horseshoe nail.
Benjamin Franklin
Old Care has a mortgage on every estate And that's what you pay for the wealth that you get.
J. G. Saxe
The night shall be filled with music And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs And as silently steal away.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Bell System is like a damn big dragon. You kick it in the tail and two years later it feels it in its head.
Frederick Kappel
Management is now where the medical profession was when it decided that working in a drug store was not sufficient training to become a doctor.
Lawrence Appley
When two men in business always agree one of them is unnecessary.
William Wrigley
Gross National Product is our Holy Grail.
Stuart Udall
In all modern depressions recessions or growth-correction as variously they are called we never miss the goods that are not produced. We miss only the opportunities for the labour - for the jobs - that are not provided.
J. K. Galbraith
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
John D. Rockefeller
It is not the employer who pays wages - he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.
Henry Ford
I think that there is nothing not even crime more opposed to poetry to philosophy ay to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau
A company is judged by the president it keeps.
James Hulbert
Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.
Peter Drucker
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
Howard Scott
Along this tree From root to crown Ideas flow up And vetoes down.
Peter Drucker
Labour is not a commodity or a standard or a means to an ulterior end but an end in itself.
George Brockway
In the history of enterprise most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education - not in the classroom where the old ways are taught but in the factories and labs where new ways are wrought ... nothing has been so rare in recent years as an Ivy League graduate who has made a significant innovation in American enterprise.
George Gilder
Power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
Alexander Hamilton
All business proceeds on beliefs on judgements of probabilities and not on certainties.
Charles W. Eliot
Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller
Don't gamble take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up then sell it. If it don't go up don't buy it.
Will Rogers
Big business is basic to the very life of this country and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction.
David Lilienthal
What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.
Henry David Thoreau
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
Josh Billings
The business of America is business.
Calvin Coolidge
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
Paul Getty
Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to grow after the New Deal. Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
Norman Cousins
I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
Harold Geneen
In economics the majority is always wrong.
J. K. Galbraith
A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.
Will Rogers
What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm capitalism is that kind of a system.
Milton Friedman
Chaplin is no businessman - all he knows is that he can't take anything less.
Sam Goldwyn
Few have heard of Fra Luca Parioli the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping but he has probably had more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.
Herbert J. Muller
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to a judicious use of sabotage.
Thorstein Veblen
People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
J. K. Galbraith
Christmas is over and Business is Business.
Franklin Pierce Adams
You are never giving nor can you ever give enough service.
James R. Cook
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.
Milton Friedman
There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
Peter F Drucker
The corporation is an artificial being invisible intangible and existing only in contemplation of law.
John Marshall
The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.
John Naisbitt
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.
John Naisbitt
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.
Robert Townsend
Remember that when an employee enters your office he is in a strange land.
Erwin H. Schell
One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.
Dean Rusk
It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law than it takes to operate a taxi cab or fry a pan of fish.
H.L. Mencken
It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services.
Albert J. Nock
The big print giveth and the fine print taketh away.
Monsignor J. Fulton Sheen
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble-making individual.
James K. Glassman
Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.
Mason Cooley
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
John Henry Boetcker
Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration.
Abraham Lincoln
Capital is a result of labor and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force and labor is therefore the employer of capital.
Henry George
I know that Nature designs that this whole continent not merely these thirty-six states shall be sooner or later within the magic circle of the American union.
William Seward