Business Quotes - Page 122

When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym.

Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she'd added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community. No rule says that only the local banker or car dealer can organize the program to raise supplemental funds for the public library or send the high school band on a well-earned special trip. Participating in community affairs, with time more than dollars, is good business from day one. It gets your name around, adds to your distinctiveness, and, best of all, makes you an attractive employer (which is the key to sustained success).

Customers must trust an organisation and its people.

Cutting carbon in the supply chain is the next critical stage in the business contribution to reduce carbon emissions to tackle climate change and, represents a significant commercial opportunity.

I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.

The first thing I did was commit to my success and playing to win. I swore I would focus and not even consider leaving this business until I was a millionaire or more. This was radically different from my previous efforts, where, because I always thought short-term, I would constantly get side-tracked by either good opportunities or when things got tough.

There's a lot of symbolism to your return. Is that going to be enough to reinvigorate the company with a sense of magic?

Research can only present data about the past. No one seriously believes that people's answers to hypothetical questions about the future accurately represent their future behaviour; they merely represent a current attitude, which may or may not be translated into future behaviour.

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday - no matter what happened Tuesday.

Investing intelligently in those of us who are marginalised means fewer people in jail, fewer homeless, fewer unemployed, fewer of us who are forlorn and depressed, fewer people addicted to things that drag us down... Because as we invest in those that do it tough, we will see more Australians taking pride in themselves, having realisable dreams and aspirations and making their own positive contribution to the world's greatest nation.

Everyone is not your customer.

Choose your customers, choose your future.

Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.

Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.

Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.

If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.

Good marketers measure.

I used to say that I wanted someone cute and nice, an actor too, so he'd get it. But now I think it would be good for me to date someone who's not in the business.

Marketers... Can't simply put a more environmentally friendly package on the shelves and assume that shoppers will recognize and appreciate the change. If the goal is to drive preference or justify a price premium, the environmental benefit needs to be conveyed.

On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married

Any idea is only as valuable as its ability to solve a problem.

Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do.

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.