Business Quotes - Page 58

Man's ignorance of the Law of Love in personal and world relationships will not serve as an excuse to save him from disaster. Wealth cannot be acquired from others by might, for wealth thus taken will impoverish him who takes anything which is not given. Nor can power be thus acquired, for the weakness of the despoiled will prevail against the might of the despoiler.

The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.

Don't play games that you don't understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.

The best businesses are really ones that can combine passion, profits, and purpose.

There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.

One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.

This caste system had grown by the practice of the son always following the business of the father.

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.

I believe in giving everything my best shot. I do not believe in holding back. I am very driven by the fact that we are destined with these opportunities.

Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman.

There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them.

Currently we don't have plans on conquering the world.

Errors of omission, lost opportunities, are generally more critical than errors of commission. Organizations fail or decline more frequently because of what they did not do than because of what they did.

I think re-engineering or restructuring or downsizing or rightsizing or whatever you want to call it, it's basically firing, has gone way too far. Employees, as I've talked to them across the country, feel that they are not respected, they are not valued, they are worried about their jobs. They simply feel that the company is no longer loyal to them. Why should they be loyal to the company, they ask me. Why should I go the extra mile? Why should I care?

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

The trouble with not being into social networking is that people think you're anti-social when you're only anti-networking.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so.

Chance favors the prepared mind. The more you practice, the luckier you become.

Enthusiasm is the way you trigger other people's emotions so they instinctively help and support you.

All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.