Business Quotes - Page 52

I run my company according to feminine principles, principles of caring, making intuitive decisions, not getting hung up on hierarchy or all those dreadfully boring business-school management ideas; having a sense of work as being part of your life, not separate from it; putting your labor where your love is; being responsible to the world in how you use your profits; recognizing the bottom line should stay at the bottom.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

Nothing is so much fun as business. I do not expect to do anything but work as long as I can stand up.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree

Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; making money is the by-product of our guiding purpose. If you're doing something you love, you're more likely to put your all into it, and that generally equates to making money

The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces.

We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.

No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.

The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done.

There is only one boss. The customer.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

The most important job of an entrepreneur is to design the business before there is a business.

When you can't solve the problem, manage it.

I'm not in show business; I'm in the communications business. That's what it's about for me.

Honesty is the best policy in international relations, interpersonal relations, labor, business, education, family and crime control because truth is the only thing that works and the only foundation on which lasting relations can build.

You should pursue your passion. If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you'll be successful. If you start a business because you think you're going to make a lot of money at it, then you probably won't be successful, because that's the wrong reason to start a business. You have to really believe in what you're doing, be passionate enough about it so that you will put in the hours and hard work that it takes to actually succeed there, and then you'll be successful.

You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.

The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity of the manual worker, is the key to economic growth and economic performance in today's society.

Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere.

If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self- interest, you can have practically anything you go after.

The airline industry is full of bullshitters, liars and drunks. We excel at all three in Ireland.