Business Quotes - Page 46

Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

There's a way to do it better - find it.

We all have to decide how we are going to fail, by not going far enough or by going too far.

My business is hurting people.

You can be entrepreneurial even if you don’t want to be in business. You can be a social entrepreneur focused on the not-for-profit sector. You can be an agriculture entrepreneur if you want to change how people think about farming. You can be a policy entrepreneur if you want to go into government. The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges.

You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.

I never had the feeling I ever had to make a dime doing anything.

Trust the Universe. Trust and believe and have faith. I truly had no idea how I was going to bring the knowledge of The Secret onto the movie screen. I just held to the outcome of the vision, I saw the outcome clearly in my mind, I felt it with all my might, and everything that we needed to create The Secret came to us.

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.

The goal of management is to remove obstacles.

We have an economy that tells us it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain it. You can print money to bail out a bank but you can't print life to bail out a planet.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything

A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its forms.

I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less

I can't help thinking if she-the director of a government agency-is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from-how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong answers when people are looking for help to start a business.

People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.

When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

What does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? It takes willingness to learn, to be able to focus, to absorb information, and to always realize that business is a 24/7 job where someone is always out there to kick your ass.