Richard S. Tedlow > Quotes

“Luck was a luxury, not the basis for a business. Luck had to be a “nice to have,” not a “need to have.”
― Richard S. Tedlow, Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built

“What Carnegie had to know personally and what he knew better than anyone else was costs. One could not control a market, although Carnegie was a superb salesman, but one could, one had to, control costs.”
― Richard S. Tedlow, Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built