Business Quotes - Page 34

In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.

When you compete with a person, you only have to be as good or better than the person to win. If you compete with yourself, there is no limitation to how good you can be.

If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.

Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil---the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

We seem to forget that everything that is good for the environment is a job. Solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind turbines don't manufacture themselves. Houses don't retrofit themselves and put in their own new boilers and furnaces and better-fitting windows and doors. Advanced biofuel crops don't plant themselves. Community gardens don't tend themselves. Farmers' markets don't run themselves. Every single thing that is good for the environment is actually a job, a contract, or an entrepreneurial opportunity.

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.

Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.

Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works.

Those who believe that we have reached the limit of business progress and employment opportunity in this country are like the farmer who had two windmills and pulled one down because he was afraid there was not enough wind for both.

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

The only companies that innovate are those who believe that innovation is vital for their future.

I am not primarily an entrepreneurial businessman. I'm primarily a playboy philosopher.

You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you're mentally out of your business.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

God helps them that help themselves.