Quotes on Business

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

The message from Wal-Mart today to the rest of the business community is there need not be any conflict between the environment and the economy. We will find the way not only to reconcile (those), but to find new profits and new opportunities as we do the right thing.

Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons

The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

The way innovating companies are designed leaves ambiguities, overlaps, decision conflicts or decision vacuums in some parts of the organisation. People rail at this, curse it-and invent innovative ways to overcome it.

At O'Reilly, the way we think about our business is that we're not a publisher; we're not a conference producer; we're a company that helps change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.

I discovered a long time ago that if I focus on doing the right thing for the long term to improve the lives of consumers and customers all over the world, the business results will come.

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by pure love. Who can predict his comings and goings? His business calls him out at all hours, even when doctors sleep.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors. It not only clears up the air of guilt and defensiveness, but often helps solve the problem created by the error

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

For me, I try as much as possible to just think about being in the movie theatre, having the lights dim, and what would I want to see on the screen. That puts me in the frame of mind that made me want to be in the movie business to begin with.