Business Quotes - Page 15

Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.

Money had never been the main thing for me. It's the legacy that was important.

Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.

Never underestimate your own ignorance.

A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range. Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.

Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?

Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.

A mere 7% of employees today fully understand their company's business strategies and what's expected of them in order to help achieve company goals.

As soon as I stopped trying to think about a business idea and started focusing on what I’m passionate about, that’s when it came to me.

Don't be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don't let the bastards get you down.

If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with how things will play out.

There's an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, 'It's not the right time just yet.' There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance, and start your business.

One customer well taken care of could be more valuable than $10,000 worth of advertising.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure

We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers

You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

Most innovations fail. And companies that don’t innovate die.

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!