Quotes on Business

Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.

In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.

A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Learn to sell. In business you’re always selling: to your prospects, investors and employees. To be the best salesperson put yourself in the shoes of the person to whom you’re selling. Don’t sell your product. Solve their problems.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

If you aren't committed to diversity of thought, you have no business launching a startup.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.

Don't just let your business or your job make something for you; let it make something of you.

The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.

In the old world of business, there was often just one seat at the leadership table for women, two at best. That meant that only so many women could advance. But in a world where women recognize the power that they own - and where technology can upend the traditional rules of engagement - one woman winning doesn't mean another loses.

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.

I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.

You're not free if you can't start a small business because you fear losing your health care, and you're certainly not free if a male boss or politician prevents you from making decisions about your own reproductive health.

If a financial institution has business operations in the United States, hires people in the United States, if they are clogged with illiquid assets, they have the same impact on the American people as any other institution.

If you want your company to succeed, you have to have the confidence in your business to take a bet on its future - to risk destroying a mediocre business model for the chance to have a strong one.