Business Quotes - Page 19

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

If you do not know where your competitor is, or overconfident and snobbish about your competitor, or are unable to comprehend how yourcompetitor became a real threat, you will surely fall behind him. Don't be the "they" in this idiom: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department.

I've seen Keith fall asleep at business meetings about millions of dollars for him-because of heroin, just nod out and then wake up and answer a question.

Remember that the six most expensive words in business are: 'We've always done it that way'

Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

My biggest challenge every day is to be a great mother and a great businesswoman.

I do not dislike but I certainly have no especial respect or admiration for and no trust in, the typical big moneyed men of my country. I do not regard them as furnishing sound opinion as respects either foreign or domestic business.

Being business minded requires you to always approach things with humility and respect.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.

A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions.

Hire character. Train skill.

Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.

There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Your brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room

We have a strategic plan. It's called 'doing things'.

If we die, do not mourn for us. This is a risky business we're in, and we accept those risks. The space program is too valuable to this country to be halted for too long if a disaster should ever happen.

The ability to sign a cheque is the least reliable guide to a company's fitness.