Business Quotes - Page 45

A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity...one must first embark on the formidable journey of self-discovery in order to create a vision with authentic soul.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then.

I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.

I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.

Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper.

I'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi's rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.

Hard work will always bring opportunities

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'.

We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as we can.

If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.

Forget about yourncompetitors, just focus on your customers.

If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome: if you make different choices from your peers, your life will then be different from your peers.

It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance.

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.

Today, there are three kinds of people: the haves, the have-nots, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves.

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.

Borrowing money on what's called 'easy terms,' is a one-way ticket to the Poor House. If you think it ain't a Sucker Game, why is your Banker the richest man in your Town? Why is your Bank the biggest and finest building in your Town? Instead of passing Bills to make borrowing easy, if Congress had passed a Bill that no Person could borrow a cent of Money from any other person, they would have gone down in History as committing the greatest bit of Legislation in the World.

A company is known by the people it keeps.