Business Quotes - Page 145

If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail.

If you are doing something wrong, you will do it badly.

Management capability is always less than the organization actually needs.

No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong.

All good management is the expression of one great idea

Either an executive can do his job or he can't.

Cash in must exceed cash out.

The easiest way of making money is to stop losing it.

We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.

I've built companies, I've created jobs, I know the frustration of small businesses with higher taxes.

If you’re a responsible business, you don’t let things like that happen in your business that have an impact on the country.

I think I am like everyone else in the music business these days - you have to adjust to the times and deliver whatever people want, and are using to consume the music.

Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.

Let the business shape the organization, not the organization shape the business.

If someone says you're not strategic, try to figure out what that means and then tell him or her to go to hell.

We are going to continue having these meetings, everyday, until I find out why no work is getting done.

So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says, 'Why are we here? We can go someplace else and use their phones.' That's one of the problems that directly affects the business community.

I have observed that almost all those whose labour lies in the field, and who go down to their business in the green meadows, admit the animal world to a share in the faculty of reason. It is the cabinet makers who construct a universe of automatons.

Our company has indeed stumbled onto some of its new products. But never forget that you can only stumble if you're moving.

Every business, like a painting, operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to run a successful company. What works once may never work again. What everyone tells you never to do may just work, once.

You've got to take risks if you're going to succeed. I would much rather ask forgiveness than permission.

Because I don't see Virgin as a company but as a way of life and I fully enjoy it, I don't think I'll ever retire.

Take a chance - it's the best way to test yourself, have fund and push boundaries.

We've got an engaging, edgy, vibrant, fun product, ... It may or may not work, but we're going to give it our best shot.

...making profits is important because it keeps all our people in jobs and, you know, it keeps what we - what we've created going, but, you know, what we're - what I get my - what I'm proud about doing is creating companies which we're really proud of, you know, which we can really be proud of and a byproduct of that hopefully will be that they'll be profitable and be able to pay the bills.