Business Quotes - Page 35

As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential... it's no different in the financial realm.

If a user is having a problem, it's our problem.

We are currently not planning on conquering the world.

It's important not to overstate the benefits of ideas. Quite frankly, I know it's kind of a romantic notion that you're just going to have this one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great. But the fact is that coming up with an idea is the least important part of creating something great. It has to be the right idea and have good taste, but the execution and delivery are what's key.

The best advice I could give anyone is to spend your time working on whatever you are passionate about in life.

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.

The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance.

The ability to lead a happy life is made, not found

Learn to sell. In business you’re always selling: to your prospects, investors and employees. To be the best salesperson put yourself in the shoes of the person to whom you’re selling. Don’t sell your product. Solve their problems.

Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.

If this company is about anything, it's about discipline and staying focused.

It's not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.

What starting your company means: you will lose your stable income, your right to apply for a leave of absence, and your right to get a bonus. However, it also means your income will no longer be limited, you will use your time more effectively, and you will no longer need to beg for favours from people anymore.

What others think about you is none of your business.

Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil, insecurity, and fear for the vast majority of the population. If the individual were no longer compelled to prove himself on the market, as a free economic subject, the disappearance of this freedom would be one of the greatest achievements of civilization.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.