Business Quotes - Page 43

The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.

I know you're smart. But everyone here is smart. Smart isn't enough. The kind of people I want on my research team are those who will help everyone feel happy to be here.

Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

If the community is happy, then they support your business and if your business is doing well, then you can give back even more to the community.

We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.

Advertising says to people, 'Here's what we've got. Here's what it will do for you. Here's how to get it.'

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Our premise is there are going to be a lot of winners. It's not winner take all. Other people do not have to lose for us to win.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.

I don't advise any one to take it [painting] up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent... But I will say that I have did remarkable for one of my years, and experience.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

When I make a mistake, it's a beauty!

A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business.

There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Make somebody happy today, and mind your own business

A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.

This morning did you wake up to an alarm clock or an opportunity clock?

If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.