Business Quotes - Page 85

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.

There’s a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school.

The degree to which the opportunity to use power effectively is granted to or withheld from individuals is one operative difference between those companies which stagnate and those which innovate.

The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone's patience had turned to active impatience.

We know there is a problem with communication but we are not going to discuss it in front of the entire staff.

I'm not in business to be loved, but I am in business.

"Why is the creative entrepreneur the riskiest type to be?" I asked. "Because being creative means you are often a pioneer. It is easy to copy a successful and proven product. It is also less risky. If you learn to innovate, create, or invent your way to success, you are an entrepreneur creating new value rather than an entrepreneur who wins by copying."

Ephemeralization means the ability to do everything with nothing, or leverage, or doing more with less. So, as a businessman, I'm constantly ephemeralizing, figuring out how I can do more and more for less and less.

They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top.

I love stirring the pot. I love giving big companies a run for their money - especially if they're offering expensive, poor-quality products.

If you're hurt, lick your wounds and get up again. If you've given it your absolute best, it's time to move forward.

Happiness is the secret ingredient for successful businesses. If you have a happy company it will be invincible.

Every individual is essentially now a small business and entrepreneur.

If we somehow put a value on species extinction and factor that into our costs that bottom line would look very different. IF we put any resource depletion into costs our bottom line would change. So what we have is a dishonest market that does not take into account all the costs when it establishes its prices. We need an honest marketplace before we can let the market work for sustainability rather than against it as it works today.

How do you decisions change if retirement is not an option?

Our growth depends not on how many experiences we devour, but on how many we digest.

I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.

Consumers know precisely what's wrong with advertising. Be it TV or print or whatever, they know that advertising is never creative enough ... never as witty, inspiring, sophisticated, entertaining and downright likeable as they would like it to be.

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

Any good business person applies financial discipline to everything they do.