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Business Quotes
"There are two kinds of warriors: those on the battlefield, and those in the boardroom; both are out to win. But the age of King Alexander has gone, and the age of Bill Gates has come."
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"Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business."
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"We got extremely lucky. It's a tough business to work with."
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"Is it weird that when I see a cool t shirt or pick up a toothbrush or see a new car I don't think about the product itself? I think about the thousands of people and dollars to make it.I think about how the retailer that took the risk to buy and resell it. Then I work backwards to the store costs, the distributer who got it there, the shipping company that brought it over from China, the factory workers that made it, the people that sourced the materials and the people that harvested the raw materials, and on and on...The global economy is amazing. Your $20 t-shirt is a freaking miracle."
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"You shouldn't do things differently just because they're different. They need to be better."
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"The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for."
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"The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top."
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"Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it."
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"These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people."
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"I was a little hesitant at taking the job at Atari. I had never programmed for a living and I worried it might get boring (building circuits seemed more fun). But I would probably still be in the video game business."
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"God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world."
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"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business."
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"My fear drives me. My faith directs me. I am an entrepreneur."
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"It may be necessary to change our brand, catch phrases, strategy, design, etc. once in awhile. It may give us competitive advantages. But a change that demands the change of the SOUL of who we're doesn't deserve to be entertained."
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"If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, and work out what might potentially stop it from growing all the way along. Anything that breaks it at any point stops that growth."
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"Selling is Serving: Serving people Asking questions Listening actively Engaging the client Supporting their decision."
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"Employee engagement takes mind, heart and hands unification."
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"16th century advertisements cannot market 21st century products. Look for what is necessary at the present moment."
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"Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay."
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"Social Media brands faster than any other existing Marketing plan and for much cheaper!"
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"The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together."
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"But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record."
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"A true businessperson should also be a true humanist who understands that he stands to gain the most in a world that is stable for those he deals with, even if they do not fare as well as he does."
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"Now everybody's got a crazy notion of their own. Some like to mix up with a crowd, some like to be alone. It's no one elses' business as far as I can see, but every time that I go out the people stare at me, with me little ukulele in me hand."
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"Everybody sells something to somebody every day, whether it's a product, a service or just a case of making sure that they get their own way."
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"People who say "it's just business" are lying. It's a deceptive and manipulative tactic used by weak minds. Anyone who has ever run or been in business knows that a business will fail if the relationships are not healthy. Business is the business of relationships. That is all."
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"Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion."
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