Quotes
- The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
- You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
- Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
- The only unforgivable sin in business is to run out of cash.
- In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
- In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: Cash and Experience. Take the experience first. The cash will come later.
- Better a good decision quickly than the best decision too late.
- Telephones, hotels, insurance—it's all the same. If you know the numbers inside out, you know the company inside out.
- Leadership cannot really be taught, it can only be learned.
- I'd hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an 18-inch fish.
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