Business Quotes - Page 3

We don’t have business problems we have people problems. When we take care of our people problems, most of our business problems are automatically resolved

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Big results require big ambitions.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.

There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.

It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.

I feel these days like a very large flamingo. No matter what way I turn, there is always a very large bill.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

If you mind your own business, you`ll stay busy all the time.

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do but to achieve what they want to achieve.

There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair. Yet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair.

Everything is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.

If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big!

Motivate them, train them, care about them, and make winners out of them... they'll treat the customers right. And if customers are treated right, they'll come back.

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power, this story never would have been written. Were it alone in these methods, public scorn would long ago have made short work of the Standard Oil Company. But it is simply the most conspicuous type of what can be done by these practices. The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.

Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!

The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.