Quotes on Business

The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist, and a bad one at that, since he has given no thought to his position.

The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Conscious business.. business that is conscious of inner and outer worlds.. would therefore be business that takes into account body, mind, and spirit in self, culture, and nature. Put differently, conscious business would be mindful of the way that the spectrum of consciousness operates in the Big Three worlds of self and culture and nature.

A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.

Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme.

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle.

Never follow your dreams. Follow your effort. It's not about what you can dream of. That's easy. It's about whether or not it's important enough to you to do the work to be ready to be successful in that business.

One of the things that may get in the way of people ... is that they're not in touch with their passion. If you're passionate about what it is you do, then you're going to be looking for everything you can to get better at it.

If you want to be successful in a particular field or endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities. It's very important that you find something that you care about, that you have a deep passion for, because you're going to have to devote a lot of your life to it.

The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.

You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone.

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

Ideas that transform industries almost never come from inside those industries.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.

Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work.

The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory.

SUPPOSE that an investor you admire and trust comes to you with an investment idea. This is a good one, he says enthusiastically. I'm in it, and I think you should be, too.