Quotes on Business

If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.

Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.

The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it's what goes on inside your own head

If every sector of business and society will be driven by software - how does that get enabled? By highly-paid computer scientists funded by risk capital in Silicon Valley? Or by lots of engineers who can build it themselves?

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

I strongly believe the business of a business is to improve the world.

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away

The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.

One of the most effective means for transcending ordinary and moving into the realm of extraordinary is saying yes more frequently and eliminating no almost completely. I call it saying yes to life. Say yes to yourself, to your family, your children, your coworkers, and your business.

Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.

Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

This morning did you wake up to an alarm clock or an opportunity clock?

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.