Business Quotes - Page 103

Look Back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion and up in gratitude.

I used to be in the real estate business, and I have three areas of interest: Chickamauga Lock, Chickamauga Lock, and Chickamauga Lock.

Yeah, leading an examined life, I always say, is a pain in the ass. It adds an element of complexity to business that most businessmen don't want to hear about. They just want to call a fabric manufacturer, and say, "Hey, give us 10,000 yards of shirting."

So all of these companies that are going for the big growth, if it continues for any length of time, will outlast their resources and outlast their customers and go belly-up. And that's why these huge companies have massive layoffs all the time.

We grow by letting the customer tell us. So when the customer tells us that they're frustrated, that they just got their catalogue and we're already out of a product they wanted, then it tells me that we're not making enough. We let the customer tell us instead of creating an artificial demand for our products. Any time you're making products that people don't need, you're at the mercy of the economy, you're at the mercy of whatever is going on. So we tried to avoid that situation.

But I'm really trying to run this company like it is going to be here a hundred years from now. That's what's important.

My Pleasure is my business

When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back and the pawn shop has been out of business for a while.

Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.

Advertising is our printed salesman. It may not be pretty, but it has to be true.

Only nine States have been represented since my arrival till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend.

Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.

Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn.

A principle isn't a principle until it costs you something.

Creativity is the most practical thing a businessman can employ.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

If a bank fails in China, they behead the men at the top of it that was responsible... If we beheaded all of ours that were responsible for bank failures, we wouldn't have enough people left to bury the heads.

I am always going to do my best, no matter where I am.

Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.

The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs; diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought; superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.

Everyone is on the same page and putting their best foot forward.

Your reputation is none of your business.