Business Quotes - Page 31

If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.

It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.

Please all, and you will please none.

In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

It sounds extraordinary, but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Build wealth as a by product of your business success. If wealth is your only objective in business, you will probably fail.

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

The difference in winning & losing is most often, not quitting.

A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is - it is what consumers tell each other it is.

I want to live in such a way that, if it is only twenty-nine more days or twenty-nine more weeks, or if it is twenty-nine more years or more, I want to faithful with each one of those-that I could go and meet the Lord without regrets, without unfinished business.

A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.

The relativism which is not willing to speak about truth but only about ‘what is true for me’ is an evasion of the serious business of living. It is the mark of a tragic loss of nerve in our contemporary culture. It is a preliminary symptom of death.

No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

When I'm bearish and I sell a stock, each sale must be at a lower level than the previous sale. When I am buying, the reverse is true. I must buy on a rising scale. I don't buy long stocks on a scale down, I buy on a scale up.

A business owner who is liberal probably inherited the business.

I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.

If the employees come first, then they're happy. A motivated employee treats the customer well. The customer is happy so they keep coming back, which pleases the shareholders. It's not one of the enduring green mysteries of all time, it is just the way it works.

I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.