Quotes on Business

The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures.

You gotta know that you're better than anybody, 'cause to me, if you don't go in like that, you're gonna lose! They're gonna punk you out! On any stage, court, business venture, on the anchor desk - whatever. You've got to go in believing, 'I can do this better than anybody.'

People work in the system. Management creates the system

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.

Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.

If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.

It is time to recognize conventional MBA programs for what they are - or else to close them down. They are specialized training in the functions of business, not general educating in the practice of management.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Being a lifestyle entrepreneur is about building a business around your lifestyle rather than a lifestyle around your business. You need to figure out what your ideal lifestyle is first.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Sustainable fishing is a fraud. It's a marketing term that really means 'business as usual.'

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.

Instead of presiding over an economic system that panders to big business and a wealthy elite, a more human economy must be established which meets the needs of African women and young people.

Most people in business and within their personal lives move towards complexity. More To Dos. More projects. More products. More meetings. More possessions. More goals. The best - I suggest to you - move in the opposite direction.

Business has to have a seat at the table. Infrastructure isn't going to be built properly if business doesn't have a seat at the table. A school is not going to happen if businesses don't work with schools about what kind of jobs they really need.

If you're going to be honest with yourself, you have to admit that you go into show business wanting people to talk about you and wanting everyone to know who you are. But that also means there are going to be a whole bunch of people who don't like you. No matter who you are.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

If you have a business model that relies on customers being misinformed, you better start working on changing your business model.