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Business Quotes



"The owners don't win by having a lockout. Shutting down your business is not good for anybody and it's certainly not good for the players, it's certainly not good for the fans. And that's most important to us."


"The U.S. automotive industry has been selling cars the same way for over 100 years, and there are many laws in place to govern exactly how that is to be accomplished."


"If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver."



"Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost."


"Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car."


"I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company."


"Customer is a very important key factor that every establishment big or small MUST recognize in other to succeed."


"This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'll take it."


"The only way to make a great product is to make a product that people want."


"It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket."


"When you create a company culture, you are drawing your lines in the sand for you, first & then for anyone else who does business with you."


"Initially we both did a bit of everything towards making each game but as we began to hire people and the business grew we naturally went in different directions, and away from the coalface of development."


"The most important thing for small businesses is getting the economy back on its feet. That - the key driver of small business activity is demand for their product, and that is what we are trying to do, getting the economy back on its feet. That's far more important than other factors."


"You want how you do business to be consistent among all team members, including partners, management, employees, and even vendors."



"For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising."


"ReThink culture, because it is the foundation of all strategic success."


"Today's partners can be your competitors tomorrow. And today's competitors can be your partners tomorrow."


"Your target market are more bothered about whether what you sell will get them promoted, sacked, recognised, accepted, praised or laid."



"My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them."


"If you sound like a contestant from The Apprentice or if the customer believes that they are being sold AT, you have already failed."


"Good managers don't set a goal to increase efficiency, but rather an implementation of business process improvements that result in higher efficiency as well."


"Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year."


"If customers don't trust you to help them at the beginning of the sales process, they certainly won't trust you with their money at the end of it."


"The risk of starting a business is more than worth the reward."


"We're on the path of creating monopoly business practices out of copyright law."


"You've got to get your team to not only understand your company brand, but also to understand their personal brand."


"Many creative minds, just like many light bulbs, lit up simultaneously, could lead to brainstorming and breakthrough innovation."


"Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off."


"It is your duty to save these prospects from that disappointment. Every potential customer, who misses out on what you have to offer, due to your lack of zeal or passion, every prospect who ends up with an excuse of an alternative from your lacklustre competition, should rest heavy on your conscience."


"Silos will continue to be inevitable as long as the rewards for collaboration are outweighed by the rewards for competition."
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