Business Quotes - Page 62

Before there is a business, a successful entrepreneur is designing this type of business in his or her mind's eye. According to my rich dad, this is the job of a true entrepreneur.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.

Always start at the end before you begin. Professional investors always have an exit strategy before they invest. Knowing your exit strategy is an important investment fundamental.

Most "necessary evils" are far more evil than necessary.

Don't think what's the cheapest way to do it or what's the fastest way to do it. Think what's the most amazing way to do it.

I wasn't running toward the theater but running away from the sporting goods store. Of course now that I'm selling spaghetti sauce (with Newman's Own), I begin to understand the romance of business.. the allure of being the biggest fish in the pond and the juice you get from beating out your competitors.

We are all one. Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

The broader and more influential organisations of businessmen have acted to undermine the basic foundation of the free market system they purport to represent and defend.

Government caters to those screaming the loudest, regardless of what they're screaming about. In business, it's exactly the opposite! You invest more in the most successful departments, and less in those that aren't performing.

The fact that used cars is our largest category is a good example. We would not have sat in a conference room and said, "Hey, how about used cars?" So what can be learned that is extensible to other companies is to ask what are your customers doing with your products that maybe you didn't anticipate that they would do? How do you think of your customers as your research and development lab, as opposed to having an R&D lab at headquarters?

All the things I love is what my business is all about.

A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.

It's never too late to learn.

No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.

Big business always serve - directly or indirectly - the masses.

You don't need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.

Detachment doesn't mean I'm trying less hard. It just means that fears and emotions that used to torment and paralyze me no longer have the same power over me. Getting to this point hasn't always been easy; it took me years to really learn to silence my mind. But as you move through your career and your life, you will have to learn that if you're not what you do, then what you do has no business keeping you entertained at night.

In business, we often say that your best customers are the customers you have now. In other words, your most successful sales leads come from the selling you've already done.

A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost. She should go far. The sooner she starts, the better. The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind.

Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British £5 and they will borrow £25 and spend it.

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

I dont usually make political comments, because I am a businessman, not a politician.

I think it is a man's duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.