In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that results exist only on the outside.The result of a business is a satisfied customer. The result of a hospital is a satisfied patient. The result of a school is a student who has learned something and puts it to work ten years later. Inside an enterprise there are only costs.

Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs.

Focus on opportunities, not problems.

With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe.

Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time.

There are just two questions to ask to attain success in business: First, "What business am I in?" Second, "How's business?"