Business Quotes - Page 81

The best way to engage honestly with the marketplace via Twitter is to never use the words "engage," "honestly," or "marketplace."

The pace at eBay was frantic and urgent. We knew that if we didn't move fast, somebody would come into the market and quash us. Participant doesn't make a lot of sense from a financial investment perspective, so it's unlikely that other people will be approaching the business in the same way. So you see less urgency; you see a thoroughness and willingness to spend extra time to get things right. Which I think is really important.

Business skills, when well applied, can do more than just make money. They can potentially make money and do some real good, which is immensely satisfying. To do that, it's important to think outside the box, take risks, and be an entrepreneur.

I think one of the things people don't understand is we can build more shareholder value by lowering product prices than we can by trying to raise margins. It's a more patient approach, but we think it leads to a stronger, healthier company. It also serves customers much, much better.

I was disillusioned by Hollywood at the time, but now I've come to accept that's just the way things are: it's called show business, not show art.

Companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.

Our attitude is that if you hire good people and pay them a fair wage, then good things will happen for the company.

Indeed, the real question is not, "Why greatness?" but "What work makes you feel compelled to try to create greatness?" if you have to ask the question, "Why should we try to make it great? Isn't success enough?" then you're probably int he wrong line of work.

In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but they are not the very point of life

If I were running a company today, I would have one priority above all others: to acquire as many of the best people as I could. I'd put off everything else to fill my bus. Because things are going to come back. My flywheel is going to start to turn. And the single biggest constraint on the success of my organization is the ability to get and to hang on to enough of the right people.

Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably demand the enlargement of the political power.

The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.

When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.

In seeking to serve social needs because it makes good business sense to do so, a corporation is doing what it knows how to do best.

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away

The artist's business requires an involvement in practically everything... The total scope of information he receives day after day is of concern.

If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don't have a business.

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.

Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Many people are very intelligent in accomplishing worldly attainments. This intelligence is not wisdom because worldly attainments such as a high position, reputation, wealth and success in business are deceptive. If we die tomorrow they will disappear tomorrow, and nothing will be left for our future. Wisdom, however, will never deceive us.

Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.