Quotes on Business

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Imagination is the highest form of research.

When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

I always entertain great hopes.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.