Business Quotes - Page 38

My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce. As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.

All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.

I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, some one else would lead you out.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

I found every single successful person I've ever spoken to had a turning point. The turning point was when they made a clear, specific unequivocal decision that they were going to achieve success. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50, and most people never make it at all.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

I like that combination between creativity and the creative process and the organization needed to make a business like this successful worldwide.

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

Don't think about what the market's going to do; you have absolutely no control over that. Think about what you're going to do if it gets there.

You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.

Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but for those who need computer training and assistance. Library business centers help support entrepreneurship and retraining.

Networking is the No. 1 unwritten rule of success in business.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready to receive it.

Most people never realize that 80% of the work is done before you step in a room. That's why they spend their entire lives grasping for magical tactics instead of changing their entire mindset.

Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does.

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.

We built this company from the customer back, not from the company out.

When you're the first person whose beliefs are different from what everyone else believes, you're basically saying, "I'm right, and everyone else is wrong." That's a very unpleasant position to be in. It's at once exhilarating and at the same time an invitation to be attacked.

Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.