Business Quotes - Page 96

Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle.

There is no learning without mistakes

It seems to me you can be awfully happy in this life if you stand aside and watch and mind your own business, and let other people do as they like about damaging themselves and one another. You go on kidding yourself that you're impartial and tolerant and all that, then all of a sudden you realize you're dead, and you've never been alive at all.

I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher.

In the 19th century China dominated the manufacture of porcelain. Then European factories discovered a cheaper method of making pottery of equal quality, demolishing the Chinese industry the exact reverse of what is happening now. World economics have turned full circle.

The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?

Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization.

Don't start a company unless it's an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession.

I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.

The business society is interested in training its citizens to make money, and, in this objective, it is often successful. Many of them do make money, and the ones who do not obligingly regard themselves as failures who have wasted the precious gift of life.

We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.

When I explain our company values and the foundation to prospective employees, they realize that they have an opportunity to do much more than change the way businesses manage and share information. When you take a workforce of smart, creative, dedicated people and say "take this company time to serve your community, and bring along your coworkers, customers, and partners" great things happen.

I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.

It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.

Noone's a leader if there are no followers.

At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one.

Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing.

If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, you're the government.

As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.

Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing.

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.