Business Quotes - Page 75

Invention is the mother of necessities.

It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customers' shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship.

I never said it would be easy. Giving up is easy.

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

There are more fakers in business than in jail.

The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world.

Never play a thing the same way twice.

You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.

When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

You cannot innovate by copying.

Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.

Indian business women like Indra Nooyi, Chanda Kochhar, Naina Lal Kidwai, Shikha Sharma, Swati Piramal, Anu Agha, Swati Piramal, Sulajja Firodia Motwani and Zia Mody have put India on the global firmament.

You don't spend ten years appealing to middle-aged women and then suddenly turn around and start trying to connect with 25-year-old women. You're almost certainly going to alienate the people who have an investment in your brand, and there's no guarantee you're going to be successful with the new group.

To be a success in business, be daring, be first, be different.

I work with wonderful people who support me. And, my beliefs are that the business needs to serve the family rather than the family serve the business.

Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.

The business changes every day, and you should be willing to change with it. You have to be willing to change with it.

It is not our ability that limits us but our view/belief of what we can achieve.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

The traditional model we all grew up with is obsolete.

Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it.

Repeat business or behavior can be bribed. Loyalty has to be earned.

Even if your competitor is still small in size or weak, you should take him seriously and treat him as a giant. Likewise, even if your competitor is massive in size, you shouldn't regard yourself as a weakling.

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

. . . Newton was an unquestioning believer in an all-wise creator of the universe, and in his own inability - like the boy on the seashore - to fathom the entire ocean in all its depths. He therefore believed that there were not only many things in heaven beyond his philosophy, but plenty on earth as well, and he made it his business to understand for himself what the majority of intelligent men of his time accepted without dispute (to them it was as natural as common sense) - the traditional account of the creation.