Business Quotes - Page 47

It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.

Businessmen must move with the times...the correlation between knowledge and business as the key to success is closer than ever.

Ifyou believe in something, work nights and weekends, it won't feel like work.

It is, after all, only common sense to realize that, but for the fact that economic life is a process of incessant internal change, the business cycle, as we know it, would not exist.

Like squirrels, the best in every business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilities - they flat out trust their skills, which is why we call this high-performance state of mind the "Trusting Mindset."

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

Consumers today are less responsive to traditional media. They are embracing new technologies that empower them with more control over how and when they are marketed to.

"Growth!" is not a Hedgehog Concept. Rather, if you have the right Hedgehog Concept and make decisions relentlessly consistent with it, you will create such momentum that your main problem will not be how to grow, but how not to grow too fast.

Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

I minded my own business, and, unfortunately, so did everyone else.

For people who live in the imagination, there is no lack of subjects. To seek for the exact moment at which inspiration comes is false. Imagination floods us with suggestions all the time, from all directions.

If you can get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties.

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people

I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

One of the things young people always ask me about is what is the secret to success. The secret is there is no secret. It's the basics. Blocking and tackling.

The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Fondness for the ground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business, eaten dirt, and sown wild oats, drifted about the world, and taken the wind of all its moods. The love of digging in the ground (or of looking on while he pays another to dig) is as sure to come back to him, as he is sure, at last, to go under the ground, and stay there.

The biggest enemy of management is indifference. It's when people don't give a damn

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.

Know your numbers' is a fundamental precept of business.

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.