Business Quotes - Page 27

All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust.

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business

Business is in itself a power.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

Financial struggle is often the direct result of people working all their lives for someone else.

Respect, recognition, and reward flow out of performance.

Just really, really believe in what you're trying to do. Don't let people alter that. Let people advise you and lead you down paths to make smart business decisions. But trust your instinct and trust that overwhelming drive that made you put all your dreams and everything on the line.

If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.

To put it another way, I believe that purpose and principle, clearly understood and articulated, and commonly shared, are the genetic code of any healthy organization. To the degree that you hold purpose and principles in common among you, you can dispense with command and control. People will know how to behave in accordance with them, and they'll do it in thousands of unimaginable, creative ways. The organization will become a vital, living set of beliefs.

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

Sometimes when you follow your dream; it opens the door for others to be able to follow theirs.

Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Your value will be not what you know; it will be what you share.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

In life and business, there are two cardinal sins. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all.