Business Quotes - Page 68

The success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervenor.

The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.

We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough... we're only paid for breakthroughs.

We believe that there is one economic lesson which our twentieth century experience has demonstrated conclusively-that America can no more survive and grow without big business than it can survive and grow without small business.... the two are interdependent. You cannot strengthen one by weakening the other, and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the legs of a giant.

When you're building a business, you're either all in, or you're not.

The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic history of mankind. What reward did they receive from our culture and its intellectuals? The position of a hated, persecuted minority. The position of a scapegoat for the evils of the bureaucrats.

My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.

Luck is not a business model.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid.

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

There are all kinds of businesses that Charlie and I don't understand, but that doesn't cause us to stay up at night. It just means we go on to the next one, and that's what the individual investor should do.

Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing.

Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

Don't be shy about believing in your ideas - even if folks around you think you're crazy.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

Generate so much loving energy that people want to just come and hang out with you. And when they show up, bill them!