Business Quotes - Page 42

Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.

Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.

Activate your fans, don’t just collect them like baseball cards.

A sense of thrift is essential to success in business. The businessman must discipline himself to practice economy whenever possible, in his personal life as well as his business affairs.

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

Every day, you'll have opportunities to take chances and to work outside your safety net. Sure, it's a lot easier to stay in your comfort zone.. in my case, business suits and real estate.. but sometimes you have to take risks. When the risks pay off, that's when you reap the biggest rewards.

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.

Premature wealth or position cannot be retained because it has not been earned; we get only what we give, and those who try to get without giving always find that the law of compensation is relentlessly bringing about an exact equilibrium.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

Every time we launch a feature, people yell at us.

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.

Investing in the market without knowing what stage it is in is like selling life insurance to 20 year olds and 80 year olds at the same premium.

Oh Lord, there it is again. The question;" What kind of business should I start?" Incidentially, it has a twin that also sets me off: "What should I specialize in during the second year of my MBA studies?" Sorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask - upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

The trouble with much of the advice business is getting today about the need to be more vigorously creative is, essentially, that its advocates have generally failed to distinguish between the relatively easy process of being creative in the abstract and the infinitely more difficult process of being innovationist in the concrete.

The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.

A good leader is always looking for people smarter and more experienced than they are. If you are the smartest one in the room, then you are stupid.

Every time you think you can’t do something... someone else thinks they can.

Often, the more money you make the more money you spend; that's why more money doesn't make you rich - assets make you rich.