Business Quotes - Page 37

The record-breaking extreme weather events causing chaos across the globe should be a wake-up call. The transition to a low-carbon economy will be much more painful if we wait until there is a climate crisis before recognising that more than half of the world's fossil fuel reserves will have to remain in the ground.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you.

Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.

People don't know how hard it is to have your own business

I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.

It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.

I've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them, nothing.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.

Once you know what you want and what is important for you to achieve, also define the values associated with it. What is important? That is something a lot of entrepreneurs pass by too quickly. For us, the things that were important were, No. 1, customer success. Nothing is more important to us than making sure every customer is successful in our service.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

Too little confidence, and you're unable to act; too much confidence, and you're unable to hear.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

My mentor said, 'Let's go do it', not 'You go do it'. How powerful when someone says, 'Let's!'