Quotes on Business

One thing is certain in business, you and everyone around you will make mistakes.

The Way of the Sage is to act but not to compete.

Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them.

No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.

Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.

Men make history, not the other way around.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.

If you have too many problems, maybe you should get out of business. There is no law that says a company must last forever.

You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.

Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

Nike is a marketing-oriented company, and the product is our most important marketing tool.

Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men.

Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace.

The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.

Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.

For people who live in the imagination, there is no lack of subjects. To seek for the exact moment at which inspiration comes is false. Imagination floods us with suggestions all the time, from all directions.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Advertising tends to be most effective in jogging finally into action those people who are well-enough disposed towards a product, but have not yet got around to buying it.

Government caters to those screaming the loudest, regardless of what they're screaming about. In business, it's exactly the opposite! You invest more in the most successful departments, and less in those that aren't performing.