No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist.
John Paul Getty
If you don`t get what you want, it`s a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price.
Rudyard Kipling
To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
John Paul Getty
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Napoleon Hill
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
Winston Churchill
October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, December, August, and February.
Mark Twain
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Henry Ford
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
Henry Ford
Do not wait; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Napoleon Hill
The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
John Paul Getty
No nation was ever ruined by trade.
Benjamin Franklin
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
Gustave Flaubert
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
John Paul Getty
An employee within an organization will advance to his or her level of incompetence and remain there.
Laurence J. Peter
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
Henry Ford
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Henry Ford
It is not the employer who pays wages - he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.
Benjamin Franklin
Just as a cautious businessman avoids tying up all his capital in one concern, so, perhaps, worldly wisdom will advise us not to look for the whole of our satisfaction from a single aspiration.
Sigmund Freud
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher`s stone.
Benjamin Franklin
People of intelligence often treat business the way ignorant people treat books.
Joseph Joubert
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
Henry Ford
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.
Henry Ford
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John Davison Rockefeller
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau
Money is like an arm or leg: use it or lose it.
Henry Ford
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
Anatole France
Make money, money, honestly if you can; if not, by any means at all, make money.
Horace
Talkers are no good doers.
William Shakespeare