American Businessman Quotations

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

I expect that our associates will walk with a little more bounce in their step and understand that this company is behind them and has respect for them.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.

If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or you're a big manufacturer.

When you stop talking, you've lost your customer. When you turn your back, you've lost her.

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

So when we go into a large hardware bid, there is usually a services component that is part of that. So as we enter these deals, we tend to talk about the capabilities and what else needs to be done, and from there the bid might expand beyond hardware to the services.

These are times of unprecedented challenge and change in the airline industry, and the appointments we are announcing today will put American in an even stronger position to continue the substantial progress that has already been made under the tenets of our Turnaround Plan.

I'm dealing in rock'n'roll. I'm, like, I'm not a bona fide human being.

Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks.

These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.

In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship.

If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell.

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect.

Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.

Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.

You begin by always expecting good things to happen.

The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

The president said that this is not removing a mole. You know, removing a mole, that's an outpatient sort of an operation. This was removing a cancer, removing a cancer takes more time.

Our entire team is focused on managing this company for value - fixing or eliminating those operations that lessen value and expanding or adding those that enhance value.

We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible.

Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself.

Testimonials are enough to convince people for now.

On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!

It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families, and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not.

We want to set a tone going into our fiscal year that starts Feb. 1, that Wal-Mart Stores is going to be aggressive in taking care of customers, taking care of our associates, communications and merchandising.

The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

Well, you would have to say what is the criteria to determine the success of any merger? It would have to be that the companies are stronger financially, that they took market share, and they are on a very steady footing in terms of their performance.

First, we have to lower our costs to levels that are more competitive. This will prevent the lower-cost airlines from pushing us out of the markets we want to serve. We've made great progress on this front, but we need to keep pushing.

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

The marketplace can handle this. The laws are there. The courts have shown a consistent ability to find a balance between copyright owners and copyright users.

We were therefore obliged to unload our boats of their cargoes and pass them empty over the falls by means of long cords which we had provided for such purposes.

I want to say here and now, that I demand unshakable integrity of every State employee.

This howling mouth, this head which rolls back and tries to escape.

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

Look at Mexico. We need to make that government better and end the corruption. If people have a better life in their country, they won't come over here.

I think then, when we started receiving the first of the user feedback, feedback from people that I had not specifically told about it, but had spread from friend to friend and then they were giving us feedback.

I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.

We're just dealing with the kind of warp and woof of television ratings.

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.

I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.

If you do this, you're going to have some heartaches from it. You're going to have people yelling at you or maybe screaming at you or criticizing you, but I think it's the best way to sell a superior chicken.

In the beginning there was nothing and God said 'Let there be light', and there was still nothing but everybody could see it.

I really think the Patriot Act violates our Constitution. It was, it is, an illegal act. The Congress, the Senate and the president cannot change the Constitution.

I am proud to be Chinese, and I do not tolerate any traitor.

It may be that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,' but I should be loath to see a rose on a maiden's breast substituted by a flower, however beautiful and fragrant it might be, that is went by the name of the skunk lily.

It's no secret what's going on in baseball. At least half the players are using steroids.

In some ways, people forget about average working people, and how they live their lives.

If you don't sell, it's not the product that's wrong, it's you.

We have developed overlays for the keys of the cash registers with the help of the Braille Institute, so that blind crew members can take orders and help our guests.

As the treaty made with the United States was the first treaty entered into by your country with other countries, therefore the President regards Japan with peculiar friendliness.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half.

Our Fly Smart philosophy is about investing only on those points of differentiation that pay for themselves, that earn a revenue premium commensurate with what it costs us to provide that product or service.

A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.

These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly red) and are partially covered with a dwarfish growth of pine and cedar, which are the only species of timber to be seen.

Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.

I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service.

It's easy to make good decisions when there are no bad options.

The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club as the Governor would have us believe.

I have been insane on the subject of moneymaking all my life.

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.

If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void.

My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.

For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think;- And no man knows what then she may discover.

If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible.

In simple terms, we are aligning our business today with the way we believe future systems are going to be designed, acquired and maintained.

In the days of Gary Cooper, James Stewart etc, film stars personified the better aspects of human nature.

Souls are not designed to float around in thin air.

It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.

Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

I would guess that any criticism about Wal-Mart could have some element of truth with 1,500,000 people.

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.

At first, we couldn't be establishment, because we didn't have any money. We were guerrilla marketers, and we still are, a little bit. But, as we became No. 1 in our industry, we've had to modify our culture and become a bit more planned.

Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Well, darling, you can have your tearoom now.

Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.

Why do I need succession planning? I'm very alert, I'm very vibrant. I have no intention to retire.

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

I never take advice from anyone more messed up than I am.

If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.

We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

Give your clients the earliest delivery consistent with quality - whatever the inconvenience to us.

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.

She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires.

Salesmanship is limitless. Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople.

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

As long as they're willing to pay to prove it, I'm willing to let them.

Two quarters doesn't make a trend, but it's a heck of a lot better than none.