Business Quotes - Page 16

Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work.

Quality is everyone's responsibility.

There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.

The future you see is the future you get.

In an era of transparency, you can have innovation without branding, but you cannot have branding without innovation.

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

It's hard to find things that won't sell online.

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially.

It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.

In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful moneymaker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend, and may leave behind him an exhausted industry and a legacy of industrial hatred. A tough manager may never look outside his own factory walls or be conscious of his partnership in a wider world. I often wonder what strange cud such men sit chewing when their working days are over, and the accumulating riches of the mind have eluded them.

The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials but the ones with the concern.

The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.