Quotes on Business

My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.

If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.

The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left.

If the community is happy, then they support your business and if your business is doing well, then you can give back even more to the community.

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people

There is no such thing as a good tax.