Quotes on Business

I believe our philosophy of conscious capitalism will eventually be widely adopted primarily because it is a better way to do business, and it creates more total value in the world for all of its stakeholders.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Overnight the digital age had changed the course of history for our company. Everything that we thought was in our control no longer was. But within a year we had invested in social media and digital experts. Now Starbucks is the number one brand on Facebook.

In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.

You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.

The hard part of running a business is that there are a hundred things that you could be doing, and only five of those actually matter, and only one of them matters more than all of the rest of them combined. So figuring out there is a critical path thing to focus on and ignoring everything else is really important.

For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.

Even if your competitor is still small in size or weak, you should take him seriously and treat him as a giant. Likewise, even if your competitor is massive in size, you shouldn't regard yourself as a weakling.

There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Conscious means "having an awareness of one's inner and outer worlds; mentally perceptive, awake, mindful." So "conscious business" might mean, engaging in an occupation, work, or trade in a mindful, awake fashion. This implies, of course, that many people do not do so. In my experience, that is often the case. So I would definitely be in favor of conscious business; or conscious anything, for that matter.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

A leader should have higher endurance and ability to accept and embrace failure.

The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top.

My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . . . It's about time for writers - particularly those who are genuine artists - to recognize that in this world you cannot figure out everything. Just have a writer who the crowds trust be courageous enough and declare that he does not understand everything, and that alone will represent a major contribution to the way people think, a long leap forward.

I'm an expert in higher level math. You + God = Enough

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.