Business Quotes - Page 8

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'

Accounting is the language of business.

If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype.

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect.

Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.

The key to success for everything in business, science and technology is never to follow the others.

Until I came to IBM, I probably would have told you that culture was just one among several important elements in any organization's makeup and success - along with vision, strategy, marketing, financials, and the like... I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.

Always deliver more than expected.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

Quality has to be caused, not controlled.

Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

The common question that gets asked in business is, why? That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not?

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.

A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.

We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.