Business Quotes - Page 29

Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

The biggest public fallacy is that the market is always right. The market is nearly always wrong. I can assure you of that.

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

The trouble with you and me my friend, is the trouble with this nation, too many blessings, too little Appreciation.

People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am no investor.

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men.

Unfinished business is our worst business. Perpetual procrastination must yield to perceptive preparation. Today we have a little more time to bless others-time to be kinder, more compassionate, quicker to thank and slower to scold, more generous in sharing, more gracious in caring.

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose

One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical. Canonise 'business success,' and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!

Haste in every business brings failures.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

You know, you don't have to have money to be a successful businessperson. You don't need a college degree. You just need a lot of common sense backed up by a willingness to work hard.

Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.

Any damn fool can put on a deal, but it takes genius, faith and perseverance to create a brand.

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.