Business Quotes - Page 41

Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

People work in the system. Management creates the system

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Do something. Either lead, follow or get out of the way.

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

A lot of people think big business in America is a bad thing. I think it's a really good thing. Most people in business are ethical, hard-working, good people. And it's a meritocracy.

The theory of the determination of wages in a free market is simply a special case of the general theory of value. Wages are the price of labour.

Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.

The most important word in the world of money is cash flow. The second most important word is leverage.

We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.

The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century ... has taken place via globalization.

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.

Enjoyment, on the other hand, is not always pleasant, and it can be very stressful at times. A mountain climber, for example, may be close to freezing, utterly exhausted, and in danger of falling into a bottomless crevasse, yet he wouldn't want to be anywhere else. Sipping a piña colada under a palm tree at the edge of the turquoise ocean is idyllic, but it just doesn't compare to the exhilaration he feels on the windswept ridge.

The E Myth. Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

A step in the wrong direction is better than staying on the spot all our life. Once you're moving forward you can correct your course as you go. Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're standing still.

I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.

All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards. And it's much easier to do business with someone when you look them in the eye and say, "This is what we're going to do," and you understand what you each mean, and you can go away and get it done.