Quotes on Business

There are only two words that will always lead you to success. Those words are yes and no. Undoubtedly, you've mastered saying yes. So start practicing saying no. Your goals depend on it!

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Many companies have long contended that stress in the home causes productivity loss in the market place.. and it does. But research now reveals that stress on the job causes stress at home. In other words, they feed off each other

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

Africa needs roads. Roads bring know-how and fertilizer to farmers and ideas and business for commerce.

The central task for a business is to make a profit. The challenge is to make a profit by doing things which are genuinely good for people and good for societies.

Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.

We need business leaders who have a respect for technical issues even if they don't have technical backgrounds. In a lot of U.S. industries, including cars and even computers, many managers don't think of technology as a core competency, and this attitude leads them to farm out technical issues.

The mark of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems, its whether it has the same problems it had last year.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.

Business must go on reiterating its absolute commitment to embedding human rights in all it does, driving industry change through collaboration with governments, international organizations, and each other.

Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you - as entrepreneurs do.

You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

Hard work isn't enough. And more work is never the real answer. The sort of grit you need to scale a business is less reliant on brute force. It's actually one part determination, one part ingenuity, and one part laziness.

A cardinal principle that we must not stray from - no exceptions - is that your genetic information is your business in terms of who sees it. Nobody should be gaining access to that information without your explicit permission, and nobody should be requiring you to take a genetic test unless you decide that that's what you want to do.

This is an industry rife with racism, sexism and homophobia. It is so closely woven into the fabric of the business that we have become snowblind to the glaring injustices happening every day.

If you're running a business for the long term, the last thing you should be doing is borrowing money to buy back stock.