Business Quotes - Page 74

The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.

Perhaps my early problems with dyslexia made me more intuitive: when someone sends me a written proposal, rather than dwelling on detailed facts and figures I find that my imagination grasps and expands on what I read.

When you're first thinking through an idea, it's important not to get bogged down in complexity. Thinking simply and clearly is hard to do.

Too many companies want their brands to reflect some idealised, perfected image of themselves. As a consequence, their brands acquire no texture, no character and no public trust.

Once a changemaker, always a changemaker but only a few swim against the tide.

I have no secret. There are no rules to follow in business. I just work hard and, as I always have done, believe I can do it. Most of all, though, I try to have fun.

One thing is certain in business, you and everyone around you will make mistakes.

We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.

If a business is to be considered a continuous process, instead of a series of disjointed stop-and-go events, then the economic universe in which a business operates-and all the major events within it-must have rhyme, rhythm, or reason.

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.

The next thing to be said about what long-range planning is not, is that it does not deal with future decisions. It deals with the futurity of present decisions. Decisions exist only in the present. The question that faces the long-range planner is not what we should do tomorrow.

The fewer data needed, the better the information. And an overload of information, that is, anything much beyond what is truly needed, leads to information blackout. It does not enrich, but impoverishes.

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

When the idea came up, (Newman's Own) I said, "Are you crazy? Stick my face on the label of salad dressing?" And then, of course, we got the whole idea of exploitation and how circular it is. Why not, really, go to the fullest length, and the silliest length, in exploiting yourself and turn the proceeds back to the community?

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

Good economics is good politics.

There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

Put yourself in your customer's place.

For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.

There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.

Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.

Business is more exciting than any game.