Quotes on Business

Success isn't about the end result; it's about what you learn along the way.

Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so.

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

It had always made sense to me to build a business based on what people really wanted, rather than guess what we thought they might want.

A product for everyone rarely reaches much of anyone.

There are more fakers in business than in jail.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.

One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that.

If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either.

Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

The opportunities that everyone cannot see are the real opportunities.

Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a poor man you must act the part with all your powers; and so if your part be a cripple or a magistrate or a plain man. For your business is to act the character that is given you and act it well. The choice of the cast is Another's.

But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt politicians into the right path?