Business Quotes - Page 77

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

As you start building the product, don't assume that you know all the answers. Listen to the community and adapt. We had a lot of our own ideas about how the service would evolve. Coming from PayPal and eBay, we saw YouTube as a powerful way to add video to auctions, but we didn't see anyone using our product that way, so we didn't add features to support it.

Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.

Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.

Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.

I'm truly saddened to learn of Steve Jobs' death. The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come. For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it's been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely.

Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

I have always been a business person.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.

Human nature has a tendency to admire complexity but reward simplicity.

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even if you have nothing else.

I'm sure there are writers who are great businessmen, but I never met any.

For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.

A vision is something you see and others don't. Some people would say that's a pocket definition of lunacy. But it also defines entrepreneurial spirit.

Those who manage their way into a crisis are not necessarily the right people to manage their way out of a crisis

True cultural connection is the Holy Grail for brands if they want to create an enduring emotional relationship with people.

In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.

Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you.

We never will have any prosperity that is free from speculation till we pass a law that every time a broker or person sells something, he has got to have it sitting there in a bucket, or a bag, or a jug, or a cage, or a rat trap, or something, depending on what it is he is selling. We are continually buying something that we never get from a man that never had it.