Business Quotes - Page 65

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Talking to God was damned good business.

There is far more danger in public than in private monopoly, for when Government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayers. Government never makes ends meetand that is the first requisite of business.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the people running the company and the people doing the work. They no longer have an inherent feel or a passion about the products. The creative people, who are the ones who care passionately, have to persuade five layers of management to do what they know is the right thing to do.

The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.

Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.

A hotel is a place that keeps the manufacturers of 25-watt bulbs in business.

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. Mankind are governed more by their feeling than by reason. Events which excite those feelings will produce wonderful effects.

Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

I'd like to have a business card saying: Bruce Norris kicked your arse.

Every child should be placed on a doorstep to sell something. It's the best possible training for life.

You cannot be successful without failure.

A successful business is created before there is a business.

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Your company should act as a springboard for ambitious employees, not a set of shackles.

You can't do a good business with a bad person. Find the right people to work with and you can't go wrong.

When people are placed in positions slightly above what they expect, they are apt to excel.

Advertising is simply a use of the right of the manufacture to present his case and to employ the same arts of appeal and persuasion accorded to the politician, the preacher, the lawyer, and to every other individual who has a special interest in something, whether a creed or a commodity.