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If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Most people...find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.

It is your people who make the ultimate difference. You put the investment into training the people and then, when you get invited to the party with the big boys, that is a unique selling point.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be.

Above all, we wish to avoid having a dissatisfied customer. We consider our customers a part of our organization, and we want them to feel free to make any criticism they see fit in regard to our merchandise or service. Sell practical, tested merchandise at reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings -- and they will always come back.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most who serves best" and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.