We found instead that they first got the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats—and then they figured out where to drive it.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward.

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.

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.

All happy companies are different: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

Good is the enemy of great.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

The purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer.

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.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.