Business Quotes - Page 25

Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.

The future belongs to brands that do more than pay lip-service to real dialogue and recognise that their customers want them to believe in something.

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top.

If there's something you want to build, but the tech isn't there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen.

Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.

The next horizon will be deep integration of the physical and interactive worlds. The future of online is offline.

Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business.

Networking is marketing. Marketing yourself, marketing your uniqueness, marketing what you stand for.

I'm a firm believer that to really understand a business takes years, not months. As an investment analyst you think you understand a business from the outside, but the reality is that, once you are inside, you can go on learning for five or ten years.

Successful companies create value by providing products or services their customers value more highly than available alternatives. They do this while consuming fewer resources, leaving more resources available to satisfy other needs in society. Value creation involves making people's lives better. It is contributing to prosperity in society.

The future of retail is the integration of Internet and digital services with the retail network.

Television: The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

A successful business is either loved or needed.

If you start a chocolate company, you can't compete with Cadbury in the first ten years because they are a big company.

I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

So as I thought about it, the most important "tool" you can have today in business is insatiable curiosity. The minute you lose it, you're dead.

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.

I loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I quit my day job twenty-five years ago to write full time. I just liked writing more…plus, I knew even then that as a full-time writer, I'd get plenty of chances to do business-type stuff, while as an accountant, I probably wouldn't get a lot of opportunities to write about dragons.

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

To know oneself is the first step toward making flow a part of one's entire life. But just as there is no free lunch in the material economy, nothing comes free in the psychic one. If one is not willing to invest psychic energy in the internal reality of consciousness, and instead squanders it in chasing external rewards, one loses mastery of one's life, and ends up becoming a puppet of circumstances.