Business Quotes - Page 14

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

It's alright to be Goliath but always act like David.

If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit.Never quit!!!

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

Leaders are people who can discern the inevitable and act accordingly. When people talk about business acumen, discernment is a big part of it. It's a bit like gut instinct, but a little more developed.

And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics, since this was the end and the beginning of the enterprise, that it should be for the enhancement and glory of the Christian religion, nor should anyone who is not a good Christian come to these parts.

You don't build a business --you build people-- and then people build the business.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach.

Get the best people and train them well.

A great brand is a story that’s never completely told. A brand is a metaphorical story that connects with something very deep – a fundamental appreciation of mythology. Stories create the emotional context people need to locate themselves in a larger experience.

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Everyone lives by selling something.

The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left.

The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.

You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.

The rushed existence into which industrialized, commercialized man has precipitated himself is actually a good example of an inexpedient development caused entirely by competition between members of the same species. Human beings of today are attacked by so-called manager diseases, high blood pressure, renal atrophy, gastric ulcers, and torturing neuroses: they succumb to barbarism because they have no more time for cultural interests.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.

Politics is just show business for ugly people.

Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.