Quotes on Business

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?

The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each.

Our premise is there are going to be a lot of winners. It's not winner take all. Other people do not have to lose for us to win.

A good design is not a democratic consensus.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

Contrary to what most of us believe, happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen, and it results from doing our best. Feeling fulfilled when we live up to our potentialities is what motivates differentiation and leads to evolution.

I can't tell you how many resumes we get from business schools across the country from black women and black men and Hispanic women, men, etcetera, who say I'm interested in working for your company because they can see someone at the top who looks like them.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.

If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small.