Business Quotes - Page 63

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

Don't just let your business or your job make something for you; let it make something of you.

Only about half of all commercials actually work.

You can't delegate growth or customer satisfaction.

I think the biggest single thing that causes difficulty in the business world is the short-term view. We become obsessed with it. But it forces bad decisions.

You could raise the price of, say, a bottle of ketchup to $1.03 instead of $1, and no one would know. Raising prices just 3% per product would add 50% to your pretax income. Why not do it? It's like heroin: You do a little and you want a little bit more. Raising prices is the easy way.

When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.

Genius of AND. Embrace both extremes on a number of dimensions at the same time. Instead of choosing a OR B, figure out how to have A AND B-purpose AND profit, continuity AND change, freedom AND responsibility, etc.

Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence.

A leader should have higher endurance and ability to accept and embrace failure.

To build wealth today, you must be in your own business.

[On dishonest business methods:] ... frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other's weaknesses! - an excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another's shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another's pockets.

Work is, after all, not a busy running back and forth in established grooves, though that is the essence of our modern business and academic life, but the supreme energy and disciplined curiosity required to cut new grooves.

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Those proud of keeping an orderly desk never know the thrill of finding something that they thought irretrievably lost.

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity; by greed, ambition, acts of God, invention, financial stress and strain, weather, discovery, fashion and numberless other causes impossible to be listed without omission.

The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.

Financial hydrogen bombs built on personal computers by 26-year-olds with MBAs.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Traditional thinking is all about "what is" Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.

Modern business must have its finger continuously on the public pulse. It must understand the changes in the public mind and be prepared to interpret itself fairly and eloquently to changing opinion.

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

It's show business. No show, no business.