Business Quotes - Page 69

To be sure, India has achieved enviable success in business services, like the glistening call centers in Bangalore and elsewhere. But in the global jousting for manufacturing jobs, India does not get its share.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses

Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.

I was asked what I thought about the recession. I thought about it and decided not to take part.

"...piling up zeros in your bank account, or cars in your driveway, won't in and of itself make you successful. Rather, true success is based on a constant flow of giving and recieving. In fact, if you look up affluence in the dictionary, you'll see its root is a Latin phrase meaning "to flow with abundance". So in order to be truly affluent, you must always let what you have recieved flow back into the world."

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Rich dad went on to explain that the world was filled with different types of entrepreneurs. There are entrepreneurs who are big and small, rich and poor, honest and crooked, for-profit and not-for-profit, saint and sinner, small town and international, and successes and failures. He said, "The word entrepreneur is a big word and it means different things to different people."

In fact, I have a problem with too much money... I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

A lot of people came into the airline business. Most of them promptly exited, minus their money.

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.

I find it very difficult to think of mistakes; not that I don't make any but because I was brought up to look only at the good things in life ... As for what lost the most money, probably Virgin Cola. It is still No 1 in Bangladesh though.

The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me

You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.

I came to the conclusion long ago that limits to innovation have less to do with technology or creativity than organizational agility. Inspired individuals can only do so much.

I used to think that my job didn't have anything to do with the environment. Then I realized that my job, as well as everyone else's job, impacts the environment in some way. And now advocating for sustainability has become my No. 1 responsibility.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

Capitalism, communism ... it's all garbage.