From a 1991 talk at the AIGA National Design Conference in Chicago:
- Focusing on making a partnership work is more profitable than focusing on making money.
- Love your employees more than you love your clients.
- The best new business is your current business.
- Price projects by asking yourself what the client’s lawyer would charge.
- It’s better to be hired for your work than for your price.
- When it comes to getting paid, the first of the month is better than the thirtieth.
- Making money off mechanicals, printing and computers turns your business into a commodity.
- The books in your library are more important than the numbers on your balance sheet.
- In order to love your work, take vacations.
- Power, in business, comes from sharing money and valuing love.
~Bill Drenttel (Drenttel Doyle Partners, NY)