Business Quotes - Page 23

Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as the firms look to advance their technology.

Being rich isn't about money. Being rich is a state of mind. Some of us, no matter how much money we have, will never be free enough to take time to stop and eat the heart of the watermelon. And some of us will be rich without ever being more than a paycheck ahead of the game.

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

Your customers are the customers of other brands who occasionally buy you.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Looking back, I underestimated the risks. The planet and the atmosphere seem to be absorbing less carbon than we expected, and emissions are rising pretty strongly. Some of the effects are coming through more quickly than we thought then.

My therapist shared a theory she had come across, and I liked it. It held that before making your next journey in this life, your soul sits at a large, circular conference table and chooses the souls who are going to be a part of your life. As for which particular people would be chosen, I figured they would be individuals from previous lives with whom there was still unfinished business.

When you find an idea that you just can't stop thinking about, that's probably a good one to pursue.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.

Being trustworthy requires: Doing the right thing. And doing things right.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you.

Imagination is the highest form of research.

Good design is good business.

There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive.

The single most important thing you can do in business is to be yourself.

. . .There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. . . Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

You cannot choose your battlefield, The Gods do that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew.

Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.