Business Quotes - Page 64

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance.

He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares.

The time you want the map... is before you enter the woods

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

If you're too focused on your current business, it's hard to change and concentrate on innovating.

I honor businesses for what they do, I honor nonprofits for what they do, I honor government for what it does, and then I invite everyone to the table so that together we can come up with innovative and broad-based solutions that can serve as many people as possible. The fewer or less diverse voices you invite to the table, the smaller and narrower your solution will be and the fewer people it will serve.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

The current model is global suicide. We need a revolution. Revolutionary thinking. Revolutionary action. Natural resources are becoming more and more scarce.

Privatisation is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all... it is a mutually profitable business contract between the private company (preferably foreign) and the ruling elite of the Third World

At a time when opportunism is everything, when hope seems lost, when everything boils down to a cynical business deal, we must find the courage to dream. To reclaim romance. The romance of believing in justice, in freedom, and in dignity. For everybody.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Being good is good business

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing.

The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

Relief has its place. But what the people need is not relief, but release - release of their own potential for development.

A dinner lubricates business.

Enthusiasm for conservation can be fashioned into a nasty weapon for those who dislike business on general principles.

You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.

You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.

A pack of lemmings looks like a group of rugged individualists compared with Wall Street when it gets a concept in its teeth.