Business Quotes - Page 20

My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

One of the most effective means for transcending ordinary and moving into the realm of extraordinary is saying yes more frequently and eliminating no almost completely. I call it saying yes to life. Say yes to yourself, to your family, your children, your coworkers, and your business.

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the one with the most attractive exterior will win.

Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

If not me- who?, If not now- when?

It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market

Customers don't expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Competition makes you better, always, always makes you better, even if the competitor wins.

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

You shouldn't focus on why you can't do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.

Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers.

You are not your resume, you are your work.

Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.