Let everyone else call your idea crazy . . . just keep going. Don't stop.

Managers are people who do things right and leaders are people who do the right thing.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Good is the enemy of great.

There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

This process of Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism.

Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.

Well-conducted business enterprise cannot fail to return a profit, but profit must and inevitably will come as a reward for good service.

Lose money for the firm, and I will be understanding; lose a shred of reputation for the firm, and I will be ruthless.

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.