“Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.”

“When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.”

“It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.”

“Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.”

“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”

“Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.”

“I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.”

“A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.”

“I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.”

“As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.”

“This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.”

“Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.”

“If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.”

“The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.”

“No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.”

“It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you're selling, and often pure, dumb luck.”

“I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.”

“I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It's that simple.”

“There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.”

“What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.”

“You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it.”