Business Quotes

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

I don't believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right.

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

I admire people who are very successful. But if that success has been achieved through too much ruthlessness, then I may admire that person, but I can't respect him.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Give them quality. That's the best kind of advertising.

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old

What gets measured gets managed.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we have found it. The real conflict is the inner conflict. Beyond armies of occupation and the hecatombs [e.g. the sacrifice of many victims] of extermination camps, there are two irreconcilable enemies in the depth of every soul: good and evil, sin and love. And what use are the victories on the battlefield if we ourselves are defeated in our innermost personal selves?

The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

Marketing takes a day to learn. Unfortunately, it takes a lifetime to master.

Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them.... for really new ideas of any kind--no matter how ultimately profitable or otherwise successful some of them might prove to be--there is no leeway for such chancy trial, error and experimentation in the high-overhead economy of new construction. Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.

Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Very often people who admit the facts, who are willing to see that Mr. Rockefeller has employed force and fraud to secure his ends, justify him by declaring, 'It's business.' That is, 'it's business' has come to be a legitimate excuse for hard dealing, sly tricks, special privileges.

On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.

Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.

Individuals don't win in business, teams do.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

Should we really let our people starve so we can pay our debts.

We don’t have business problems we have people problems. When we take care of our people problems, most of our business problems are automatically resolved

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.