Business Quotes - Page 106

The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could do the day before.

Tracking account planning is rather like counting a mixed batch of tropical fish. You think you see patterns, but they've all changed by the time you've finished counting.

We are quite convinced that if he were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be moving out of fossil fuels and investing in clean, renewable energy.

In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder.

So much of starting a business or affecting change is the confidence and courage to simply try.

A product for everyone rarely reaches much of anyone.

You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.

Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.

People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it." -

We've been in the Mac software business for more than 20 years. And it's been a great business for us.

I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.

Embrace what you don`t know

I do still see that my nature is not to be quite conquered, but will esteem pleasure above all things, though yet in the middle of it, it has reluctances after my business, which is neglected by my following my pleasure. However musique and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused

Chaplin is no businessman

Chaplin is no business man - all he knows is that he can't take anything less.

When priorities are in place, one can more patiently tolerate unfinished business.

It's unfortunate that music has become such big business.

The importance of discretion increases with closeness to the top of a hierarchical organization.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

One of the things I have learned over 26 years in the business is that the most productive place to focus new business efforts on is current clients. Think about it you have the relationship, you have inside knowledge of the company, the people and often, the brand, so it's a much less diverting exercise. Simply put, the odds of getting a higher share with current clients is much better than getting in the front door with new ones.