Business Quotes - Page 10

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, "Oh, well, there's another Saturday." The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.

Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing.

The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.

Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong

American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.

There is no amount of money in the world that will make you comfortable if you are not comfortable with yourself.

Those who own much have much to fear.

Marketing is not only much broader than selling, it is not a specialized activity at all. It encompasses the entire business. It is the whole business seen from the point of view of its final result, that is, from the customer's point of view.

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.

Several other aerospace and defense firms have announced plans to build facilities in north Mississippi in recent weeks. They join an impressive group of high-tech companies already doing business in our region.

Most processes leave out the stuff no one wants to talk about: magic, intuition and leaps of faith.

There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might and force of habit. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him-and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.

Don't cheat yourself out of music. Music is one thing. The music business is another thing. Save enough of yourself to keep living anyway. Save enough joy in your heart to enjoy it. Let your reward be in the doing of it.

I would like to be the first man in the gym business to throw out my scale. If you don't like what you see in the mirror, what difference does it make what the scale says?