Quotes on Business

Why worry? If you've done the very best you can, worrying won't make it any better

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa, or at the least, out of town. Essayists in their stillness ponder love and death.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

The business of America is business.

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

Find the right people, not the best people.

Don't even trust that you are able to unify what everyone is thinking; it is impossible

Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee you are a business with one employee, you. Nobody owes you a career. You own it, as a sole proprietor.

Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let's go do it.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.

If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.

When you're building a business, you want to focus and deliver excellence at what you do. This simply cannot be done when you are launching multiple ventures, dozens of new products, and selling everywhere and anywhere at the same time.

What's nice about investing is you don't have to swing at every pitch.