Business Quotes - Page 54

When you're ready to quit, you are closer than you think

About three million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.

People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.

The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it's what goes on inside your own head

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

... overconfidence in one's own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This vanity, combined with extreme ignorance of conditions the knowledge of which is the very A B C of business and of life, produces more shipwrecks and heartaches than any other part of our mental make-up.

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

The public does not know what is possible. We do.

Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be beaten.

Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.

Learning to be an effective leader is no different than learning to be an effective person. And that's the hard part

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you.

I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes.

But there is only one person I blame for getting shafted, and that's myself. I went into the deal which I thought would secure the future of Orange Aids with culpable impetuosity. I had been used to doing business on a handshake and my work of honour, and I made the error of actually believing what the men in the pin-striped suits told me.

Whatever you're thinking, think bigger.

And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you're consistent, you're vulnerable to attack. Yes, it's a paradox. Now deal with it!

The most important actions are never comfortable.

The turning point, I think, was when I really realized that you can do it yourself. That you have to believe in you because sometimes that's the only person that does believe in your success but you.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis.