Business Quotes - Page 55

Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.

My advice was to start a policy of making reversible decisions before anyone left the meeting or the office. In a startup, it doesn't matter if you're 100 percent right 100 percent of the time. What matters is having forward momentum and a tight fact-based data/metrics feedback loop to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions. That's why startups are agile. By the time a big company gets the committee to organize the subcommittee to pick a meeting date, your startup could have made 20 decisions, reversed five of them and implemented the fifteen that worked.

Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die.

We are focused on features, not products. We eliminated future products that would have made the complexity problem worse. We don't want to have 20 different products that work in 20 different ways. I was getting lost at our site keeping track of everything. I would rather have a smaller set of products that have a shared set of features.

The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

In difficult circumstances, teams either separate or come closer together, it's as simple as that

One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act.

Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success

I'm no longer an artist, I'm a business partner.

The work, the work, the work. This is what the business is all about. This is the fun, the glory, the pleasure. It's the only true measure of an agency. In the absence of great work, nothing else matters.

Every problem contains the seed of it's own solution.

Some individuals have developed such strong internal standards that they no longer need the opinion of others to judge whether they have performed a task well or not. The ability to give objective feedback to oneself is in fact the mark of the expert.

The airline business is it is mostly run by a bunch of spineless nincompoops who actually don't want to stand up to the environmentalists and call them the lying wankers that they are.

The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.

In financing growing companies, we always looked for human value that didn't appear on the balance sheet.

Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.

A business model that hasn't been tried before is always interesting, even if it's likely to fail.

As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.

Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.

Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business. My business.

Treat your customers like they own you. Because they do.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.