Quotes on Business Success

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Riches do not come by crossing your fingers and walking through the day hoping. Riches and wealth comes from well-laid plans.

Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.

Affluence includes money but is not just money. It is the abundance, the flow, the generosity of the universe, where every desire we have must come true, because inherent in having the desire are the mechanics for its fulfillment.

Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.

Always deliver more than expected.

The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business success. If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.

I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.

Remember: Rewards come in action, not in discussion.

Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it.

You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skills.

Selling is essentially transference of feeling.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

Investing isn’t risky; not being in control is risky.

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.