Business Quotes - Page 18

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.

Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire.

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.

I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea. Never as then, amid suicides, hysteria, and groups of fainting people, have I felt the sensation of real death, death without hope, death that is nothing but rottenness, for the spectacle was terrifying but devoid of greatness... I felt something like a divine urge to bombard that whole canyon of shadow, where ambulances collected suicides whose hands were full of rings.

The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.

I sincerely believe the word "relationships" is the key to the prospect of a decent world [and life]. It seems abundantly clear that every problem you will have - in your family, in your business, in our nation, or in this world - is essentially a matter of relationships, of interdependence.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.

Equal interchange of goods and service between buyer and seller is the keynote of tomorrow's business world when the vision of the modern business man awakens him to the wisdom of writing that policy into his code of ethics.

Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

Design isn't just about making things beautiful; it's also about making things work beautifully.

The more alike two products are, the more important their differences become.

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

An enterprise's most vital assets lie in its design and other creative capabilities.

You are surrounded by simple, obvious solutions that can dramatically increase your income, power, influence and success. The problem is, you just don't see them.