A company is judged by the president it keeps.
As a rule from what I've observed the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night he just relapses int...
Twenty generations ago - around the year 1390 - you had 1 048 576 ancestors. In the 21st generation of your family that number will double again.
Managers don't have to cook the books to manipulate earnings they often have all the power they need in the leeway built into accounting rules.
It might be termed the Law of Triviality. Briefly stated it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in adverse proportion to the sum involved.
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: owners...
After an eight-hour day workers require three overtime hours to produce two regular hours of results.
If a cluttered desk is an indication of a cluttered mind what is indicated by an empty desk?
All business proceeds on beliefs on judgements of probabilities and not on certainties.
What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.
Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to grow after the New Deal. Government in the U.S. today is a se...
I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm capitalism is that kind of a system.
Few have heard of Fra Luca Parioli the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping but he has probably had more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
We have yet to find a significant case where the company did not move in the direction of the chief executive's home.
There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law than it takes to operate a taxi cab or fry...
As one retiring chief executive said to his successor "Yesterday was the last day you heard the truth from your subordinates."