Business Quotes - Page 11

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

Good fences make good neighbors.

I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.

The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.

We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

The best vision is insight.

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

The more people who own little businesses of their own, the safer our country will be, and the better off its cities and towns; for the people who have a stake in their country and their community are its best citizens.

In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to.

Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac's talents didn't extend to investing: He lost a bundle in the South Sea Bubble, explaining later, 'I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.' If he had not been traumatized by this loss, Sir Isaac might well have gone on to discover the Fourth Law of Motion: For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases.

Never invest in a business you can't understand

The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.

Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular gift in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.