H.W. Brands Quotes
It's like our daddies and moms always used to tell us growing up, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you earn.
The males (of the Hutchinson family that included both religious dissenter Anne and immensely wealthy and politically connected Thomas) were merchants who sought salvation through commerce.
Tomorrow your reputation has to be made again.
If you run a business, 80% of your business probably comes from 20% of your customers. If you are a creative person, 80% of your awards/recognition/income will come from 20% of your output.
Failure to commit is as bad as failure to start.
The job of the brand is to make that nameand that logo stand for something. To live its founding principles each day. To stay true.
It's a labour of love. And you are both the labour and the love.
The only thing that matters is everything.
Reputation takes decades to make. And can be lost in one tweet. Think about that before you press the send button.
Average dies quicker than ever before. Digital doesn't mess around. It's binary.
teams build a business. Culture builds the team.
Teams gather around change.
He has not shown the special interest in reading that we should like to see but he likes shop work. George H. W. Bush's parents on his Andover application
Do one thing well. It's enough.
Sleep is the multiplier of energy.
Small budgets require brave ideas.
William "Boss" Tweed was in such thorough control in New York that he made money off of the report the committee printed after investigating him.
It's philanthropy, but it's good politics, too. Mighty good politics. The poor are some of the most grateful people in the world. George Washington Plunkett.
When speculators have once entered Wall Street, they never leave it except in a pine box or a rosewood case, according to circumstances.
The sight of big ships, of the many new uniforms, at once serious and cool, left Bush with an overall sense of the navy's power and camaraderie and purpose.
His notes to the outside world offered a window on an active, sympathetic, eclectic mind.
Shiloh showed him what he could ask of his men, and indeed what he MUST ask of them.
Build a company you would never sell.
Employment was better than idleness for men, because it kept the enemy guessing.
The very lack of explicit pressure was itself a compelling force, for it created a world in which the expectation of success was simply there, a fact of life as basic as breakfast.
I believe my mother was smart enough to know that in the night, you are willing to tell all. If she waited until the next day, she knew she'd get one-syllable answers.
Grant made the perfect candidate, a war hero with indistinct views on most political issues.
Even when he played, he made a business of it.
Marketing shouldn't feel like marketing. It should feel like a story.
Amid the war the capitalists were asserting national necessity.
Treat distractions as the enemy. The internet is brilliant but it is one very efficient way of wasting your time.
Life is complicated. Sport is simple.
Rule No. 1. Make a great product. Rule No. 2. Don't forget rule No.1.
Don't rely on good principles to sell an inferior product.
The best business models become role models for others.
WRITE YOUR BUSINESS PLAN ON A DOORMAT
Call your heroes. They have telephones too.
Hot passion is a bit like infatuation – it burns brightly, but fades quickly.
99% of businesses fail for one reason. They never start.
Self-imposed insanely impossible deadlines often help.
The real badge of honour at work is not to work longer than anyone else, but to work smarter than anyone else.