business Quotes

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'

The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.

The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

If analysis shows that someone's brilliant work fails again and again as soon as cooperation from others is required, it probably indicates a lack of courtesy - that is, a lack of manners.

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.