Dan Brent Burnt

What America needs most is aviation.

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Depressions aren’t acts of God; like wars, they are the work of a small group of men who profit by them.

There’s no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor.

What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.

If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.

While several parties have expressed interest in buying the company, I’m not shopping it, I haven’t sold it and I’m not about to sell it.

If you find out what men want and give them that, you are pleasing them. If you find out what is good for them and give them that, you are performing a service. That’s what we are trying to do.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

I think everybody thought I was crazy that I quit my job and started a management company in which I was managing one client – Laura Nyro.

Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget Rule No.1.

The way out of the depression is to start spending and doing things.

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn’t really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.

A manufacturer is not through with his customer when a sale is completed. He has then only started with his customer. In the case of an automobile the sale of the machine is only something in the nature of an introduction. If the machine does not give service, then it is better for the manufacturer if he never had the introduction, for he will have the worst of all advertisements-a dissatisfied customer.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.