Quotes on Business

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

If we die, do not mourn for us. This is a risky business we're in, and we accept those risks. The space program is too valuable to this country to be halted for too long if a disaster should ever happen.

Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.

Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Sustainability makes good business sense, and we're all on the same team at the end of the day. That's the truth about the human condition.

About three million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.

No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.

If tomorrow, women woke up and decided they really liked their bodies, just think how many industries would go out of business.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.

Business leaders who openly acknowledge people's concerns about becoming obsolete and who invest resources in workers' growth can help create a nation of learners - and perhaps resolve some of the political chaos that's bubbling around us.

In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.

Customer satisfaction is worthless. Customer loyalty is priceless.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.