Quotes on Business

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane.

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

It is as if evolution has built a safety device in our nervous system that allows us to experience full happiness only when we are living at 100%-when we are fully using the physical and mental equipment we have been given.

Your income is directly related to your philosophy, NOT the economy.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it.

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.

People want economy, and they'll pay any price to get it.

I'm not sure I knew what an entrepreneur was when I was ten, but I knew that starting little businesses and trying to sell greeting cards or newspapers door-to-door or just vending machine kind of thing is.. there's just something very intriguing to me about that.

The only thing worse than starting something and failing... is not starting something.

I know that no business contract, no order or commercial consideration can ever be worth the happiness of one's home or the peace of one's mind.

Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

Our jobs determine to a large extent what our lives are like. Is what you do for a living making you ill? Does it keep you from becoming a more fully realized person? Do you feel ashamed of what you have to do at work? All too often, the answer to such questions is yes. Yet it does not have to be like that. Work can be one of the most joyful, most fulfilling aspects of life. Whether it will be or not depends on the actions we collectively take.

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.