Quotes on Business

I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.

Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital, the natural world and properly functioning societies._x000D_ _x000D_ No sensible capitalist would do that.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

One of the things young people always ask me about is what is the secret to success. The secret is there is no secret. It's the basics. Blocking and tackling.

Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.

I think one of the things people don't understand is we can build more shareholder value by lowering product prices than we can by trying to raise margins. It's a more patient approach, but we think it leads to a stronger, healthier company. It also serves customers much, much better.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.

Entrepreneurship is about turning what excites you in life into capital, so that you can do more of it and move forward with it.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

As far as this business of solitary confinement goes, the most important thing for survival is communication with someone, even if it's only a wave or a wink, a tap on the wall, or to have a guy put his thumb up. It makes all the difference.

When most people ask about a business growing, what they really mean is growing revenue, not just growing the number of people using a service. Traditional businesses would view people using your service that you don't make money from as a cost.

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.