Business Quotes - Page 26

Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.

You can never say all the tricks have been done. Someone always shows you something you didn't know. Every year you think, 'Gee, I didn't think you could do that'.

The most important adage and the only adage is, the customer comes first, whatever the business, the customer comes first.

The interesting thing is that there are so few important decisions. You don't have to go in the "right" direction. You don't have to enter the "right" business. What you have to do is have made a decision as to what you're going to do and then you just have to figure out how to succeed at it.

No matter how much work a man can do, no matter how engaging his personality may be, he will not advance far in business if he cannot work through others.

We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems.

I'm a committed Christian. I worship in my own way. That's my business. That's not the business of the pharisees who are going to preach to me about what I do and then do something else.

To prosper soundly in business, you must satisfy not only your customers, but you must lay yourself out to satisfy also the men who make your product and the men who sell it.

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not alone good manners, but equally good business.

It's not competition and greed that makes the world go around, it's cooperating and caring

In America, small business is a big deal.

To be an ethical leader is indeed to be different. This kind of leader acknowledges the complexity of running a responsible business, yet tries to do it anyway.

This is the welfare generation, and that is incredibly sad. That will be judged in history as being far worse, I believe, than the stolen generation, because we are literally losing thousands and thousands of our indigenous brothers and sisters to the effects of welfare – drugs, gunja, low morale, alcoholism. I see it everyday and it can stop. The solution is education, training and a guaranteed opportunity.

Today the strategies of many companies in the real estate industry are premised on low interest rates, an assumption that has resulted in the rapid expansion of the real estate securitization business. This trend could be regarded as a risk factor, as it exposes the real estate sector to at least three potential problems: first, interest rate hikes; second, revisions to securitization business accounting standards; and third, overheating in the real estate market.

The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.

If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.

If you don't ask, the answer is always no.

There is no point in retaining a brand equity if it has no traction with consumers, or has no likelihood of doing so.

Half a century ago, the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote that happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.

The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Leadership happens at every level of the organization and no one can shirk from this responsibility.

If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.