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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

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

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.

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

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

What gets measured gets managed.

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.