Quotes on Business

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

Most people who go into business for themselves and, therefore, believe they are entrepreneurs, are doomed to struggle because they don't have a true Entrepreneurial Perspective. They have a Technician's Perspective.

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.

You can't be in business with international development and not understand basic issues of colonialism, postcolonialism and white privilege.

My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, and she thought it was too crazy for me. She wanted me to be married with children, to be independent, yes, but not to have a crazy life.

Know your numbers' is a fundamental precept of business.

Taking bold action on climate change simply makes good business sense. It's also the right thing to do for people and the planet. Setting a net-zero GHG emissions target by 2050 will drive innovation, grow jobs, build prosperity, and secure a better world for what will soon be 9 billion people.

If you have all the research, all the ground rules, all the directives, all the data - it doesn't mean the ad is written. Then you've got to close the door and write something - that is the moment of truth which we all try to postpone as long as possible.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

We're in business to relieve human suffering, to help feed the poor, to provide education and culture - but above all else, we're concerned with the relief of human suffering.

We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies-in the minds of those closest to the work. It's been there in front of our noses all along while we've been running around chasing robots and reading books on how to become Japanese-or at least manage like them.

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Customers should be number 1, Employees number 2, and then only your Shareholders come at number 3.

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.