Business Quotes - Page 49

I really want people to know that I've worked hard, very hard, to get to where I am today.. this didn't just happen overnight. I started in business over 25 years ago and have found a way to build on what I've learned through every partnership and opportunity.

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.

To lead people, walk behind them.

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

People are unlikely to know that they need a product which does not exist and the basis of market research in new and innovative products is limited in this regard.

Nothing works better than just improving your product.

Believe in yourself.. in all you can do.. and for you, the deals will start to work in your favor. You need to be open to such deals, and they will come, I assure you.

You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

The manufacturing corporation, except in comparatively few instances, no longer represents a protecting care, a parental influence, over its operatives. It is too often a soulless organization; and its members forget that they are morally responsible for the souls and bodies, as well as for the wages, of those whose labor is the source of their wealth.

The higher you go in a company, the less oxygen there is, so supporting intelligent life becomes difficult.

Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme.

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality.

It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.

The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.

By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.

The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants

Dont count the things you do, do the things that count.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

A successful trader studies human nature and does the opposite of what the general public does.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year.. equivalent to seven years in a regular person's life. In other words, it's evolving fast and faster.