Quotes on Business

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

Never underestimate your own ignorance.

Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; making money is the by-product of our guiding purpose. If you're doing something you love, you're more likely to put your all into it, and that generally equates to making money

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Why should a manufacturer bet his money, perhaps the future of his company, on your instinct?

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

There is only one boss. The customer.

If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing.

When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

I always say that in investing you want to buy stock in a company that has a business that's so good that an idiot can run it, because sooner or later one will. We have a country like that.

Sell the benefit, not your company or the product. People buy results, not features.

The business of the country is business.

Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.

The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.

Education doesn't just take place in stuffy classrooms and university buildings, it can happen everywhere, every day to every person.