Business Quotes - Page 32

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

A brand strategy can enable, sometimes crucially, the potential of an innovation to be realised. There are times when you literally need to brand it or lose it.

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

When the nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me. I looked to the German press, which prided itself on the freedom of the press, and it failed me. Until at last the churches stood alone, and that for which I once had little regard earned my respect.

Wealth is the sinews of affairs.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

The key factor that will determine your financial future is not the economy; the key factor is your philosophy.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.

It's amazing how much you can get done if you don't worry about who gets the credit.

As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the United States military controlled the media coverage of its long involvement there and in Afghanistan.

You never know what you can do until you have to do it.

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change. With Wrigley chewing gum, it's the lack of change that appeals to me. I don't think it is going to be hurt by the Internet. That's the kind of business I like.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.

The best decision is the right decision. The next best decision is the wrong decision. The worst decision is no decision.

Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week.