Business Quotes - Page 116

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

A Bit of Craziness Is Good for Business

Anything great that has been accomplished in the history of humanity has started with one small thought. We all have those thoughts; few people do anything with theirs, however. What do you intend to do with yours?

What Is Your WOW Factor? This applies to both the service that you provide to the world and the way you market it. Make it edgy, make it snappy, and make it punchy. Even make it raunchy - but make it different! Real different!

Having taught economics courses at private vocational schools and universities, I have always had a problem with GNP as a yardstick of prosperity. GNP is improved by increases in questionable activities such as consumption of cigarettes and the production of weapons. Moreover, a substantial increase in car accidents will favorably affect GNP because more funerals, hospital visits, car repairs, and new car purchases will result.

Fifteen Minutes of Notoriety Beats the Best Advertising Money Can Buy

America has global trade with plenty of nations that provide inexpensive labor, but it's better for us when they're in our own hemisphere, rather than sending that business halfway around the world.

The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.

The bottom line is in heaven!

I want to be known as a great businessman.

A good design is not a democratic consensus.

A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them?

You always have to give 100%,because if you don't someone, somewhere will give 100% and they will beat you when you meet.

Once you get hooked on the airline business, it's worse than dope.

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Mind my own business.

I'm a business person at heart.

The United Nations has no business in our elections.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by.

I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.