BUSINESS QUOTE FOR BUSINESS PEOPLE
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The critical ingredient is
getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot
of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about
them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is
a doer, not a dreamer.
- My son is now an
‘entrepreneur’. That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.
- Leadership is a potent
combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be
without the strategy.
- The golden rule for every
business man is this: “Put yourself in your customer’s place. –
- I had to make my own living and
my own opportunity! But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the
opportunities to come. Get up and make them
- The important thing is not
being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not
try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it
- Life is too complicated not to
be orderly.
- The winners in life think
constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand,
concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have
done, or what they can’t do.
- Business opportunities are like
buses, there’s always another one coming.
- Leadership is doing what is
right when no one is watching.
- There is no royal,
flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it. For
if I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing
to work hard. –
- Business is more exciting than
any game
- Let every man be respected as
an individual and no man idolized. –
- We are currently not planning
on conquering the world.
- If it really was a no-brainer
to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained,
harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their
day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round
out the workforce and execute the business plan.
- It takes more than capital to
swing business. You’ve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by —
Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics
- For all of its faults, it gives
most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even
as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the
choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy.
- A man should never neglect his
family for business.
- The only limits are, as always,
those of vision.
- To think is easy. To act is
difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.
- I like thinking big. If you’re
going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
- Nobody talks about
entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what it is and what
nurtures creative thinking. Running that first shop taught me business is
not financial science; it’s about trading: buying and selling.
- To waken interest and kindle
enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
- Your most unhappy customers are
your greatest source of learning
- Success is often achieved by
those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.
- The competitor to be feared is
one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own
business better all the time.
- The good or ill of a man lies
within his own will.
- I have known not a few men who,
after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable
on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their
day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making
- The cynic says, “One man can’t
do anything”. I say, “Only one man can do anything.” –
- I feel that luck is preparation
meeting opportunity
- If there is such a thing as
good leadership, it is to give a good example
- Sometimes when you innovate,
you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with
improving your other innovations.
- You’ve got to say, I think that
if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It’s
called perseverance.
- The desire of knowledge, like
the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of
- Success in business requires
training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by
these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
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- Well, you know, I was a human
being before I became a businessman.
- Leadership is the art of
getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do
it. –
- If you did not look after
today’s business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.
- The great accomplishments of
man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm.
Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
- Being able to touch so many
people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge
blessing
- Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear, but around in awareness. The trick is in what one
emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves
strong. The amount of work is the same.
- The great leaders are like the
best conductors – they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the
players.
- To think creatively, we must be
able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.
- To the degree we’re not living
our dreams; our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over
ourselves.
- The enemy of the truth is very
often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the
myth-persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
- Long-range planning works best
in the short term.
- The NBA is never just a
business. It’s always business. It’s always personal. All good businesses
are personal. The best businesses are very personal.
- You can fool all the people all
the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.
- A business has to be involving,
it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
- The entrepreneur always
searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
- No enterprise can exist for
itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great
service, not for itself, but for others.. or failing therein, it ceases to
be profitable and ceases to exist.
- Live daringly, boldly,
fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put
forth the best within you.
- Winning is not a sometime
thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do
things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is
habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
- In all realms of life it takes
courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your
potential. It’s no different in the financial realm.
- The expectations of life depend
upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first
sharpen his tools.
- The first one gets the oyster
the second gets the shell. –
- Hire character. Train skill. –
- The first rule of any
technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient
operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation
applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
- Look well to this day.
Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well
lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a
vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day.
- Surviving a failure gives you
more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools.. but they must be
kept to a minimum.
- Whatever the mind of man can
conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful
things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning
desire, can be translated into riches. –
- It is not the strongest of the
species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most
responsive to change.
- Industry is the soul of
business and the keystone of prosperity.
- I don’t pay good wages because
I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.
- People are definitely a
company’s greatest asset. It doesn’t make any difference whether the
product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it
keeps. –
- In business, I’ve discovered
that my purpose is to do my best to my utmost ability every day. That’s my
standard. I learned early in my life that I had high standards.
- In the business world, everyone
is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the
cash will come later. –
- To be successful, you have to
have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart..
- The absolute fundamental aim is
to make money out of satisfying customers.
- There are a lot of things that
go into creating success. I don’t like to do just the things I like to do.
I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don’t spend a lot
of time doing my favorite activities
- I have found no greater
satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict
adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should
gain as well.
- You must be the change you wish
to see in the world.
- Let’s be honest. There’s not a
business anywhere that is without problems. Business is complicated and
imperfect. Every business everywhere is staffed with imperfect human
beings and exists by providing a product or service to other imperfect
human beings. –
- You need to be aware of what
others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and
encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody
wins.
- The only way around is through.
–
- You only have to do a very few
things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.
- The noblest search is the
search for excellence –
- The man who does not work for
the love of work but only for money is not likely to neither make money
nor find much fun in life.
- You must remain focused on your
journey to greatness.
- Far and away the best prize
that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Where there is an open mind,
there will always be a frontier. –
- Whether you think you can or
whether you think you can’t, you’re right!
- You must either modify your
dreams or magnify your skills.
- Who likes not his business, his
business likes not him.
- The new source of power is not
money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.
- The man who will use his skill
and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar,
instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
- It’s through curiosity and
looking at opportunities in new ways that we’ve always mapped our path at
Dell. There’s always an opportunity to make a difference
- If you work just for money,
you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put
the customer first, success will be yours.
- Winners take time to relish
their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from
the top so exhilarating.
- Management is nothing more than
motivating other people.
- Motivation is the art of
getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- The most serious mistakes are
not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is
asking the wrong question.
- Why did I want to win? Because
I didn’t want to lose! –
- To succeed in business, to
reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about
that business.
- To win without risk is to
triumph without glory. –
- To succeed… You need to find
something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire
you. –
- Statistics suggest that when
customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited
about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more
business.
- I wasn’t satisfied just to earn
a good living. I was looking to make a statement.
- Whether it’s Google or Apple or
free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our
toes.
- A business has to be involving,
it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
- The entrepreneur always
searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
- No enterprise can exist for
itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great
service, not for itself, but for others.. or failing therein, it ceases to
be profitable and ceases to exist. –
- Live daringly, boldly,
fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put
forth the best within you.
- Winning is not a sometime
thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do
things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is
habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
- In all realms of life it takes
courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your
potential. It’s no different in the financial realm.
- The expectations of life depend
upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first
sharpen his tools.
- The first one gets the oyster
the second gets the shell
- Hire character. Train skill
- The first rule of any
technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient
operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation
applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
- Look well to this day.
Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well
lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a
vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day.
- Surviving a failure gives you
more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools.. but they must be
kept to a minimum.
- Whatever the mind of man can
conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful
things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning
desire, can be translated into riches.
- It is not the strongest of the
species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most
responsive to change.
- Industry is the soul of
business and the keystone of prosperity.
- I don’t pay good wages because
I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.
- People are definitely a
company’s greatest asset. It doesn’t make any difference whether the
product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it
keeps. –
- In business, I’ve discovered
that my purpose is to do my best to my utmost ability every day. That’s my
standard. I learned early in my life that I had high standards.
- In the business world, everyone
is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the
cash will come later.
- To be successful, you have to
have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart..
- The absolute fundamental aim is
to make money out of satisfying customers.
- There are a lot of things that
go into creating success. I don’t like to do just the things I like to do.
I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don’t spend a lot
of time doing my favorite activities.
- I have found no greater
satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict
adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should
gain as well.
- You must be the change you wish
to see in the world
- Let’s be honest. There’s not a
business anywhere that is without problems. Business is complicated and
imperfect. Every business everywhere is staffed with imperfect human
beings and exists by providing a product or service to other imperfect
human beings. –
- You need to be aware of what
others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and
encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody
wins.
- The only way around is through
- You only have to do a very few
things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.
- The noblest search is the
search for excellence
- The man who does not work for
the love of work but only for money is not likely to neither make money
nor find much fun in life.
- You must remain focused on your
journey to greatness.
- Far and away the best prize
that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Where there is an open mind,
there will always be a frontier.
- Whether you think you can or
whether you think you can’t, you’re right!
- You must either modify your
dreams or magnify your skills.
- Who likes not his business, his
business likes not him
- The new source of power is not
money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.
- The man who will use his skill and
constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead
of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
- It’s through curiosity and
looking at opportunities in new ways that we’ve always mapped our path at
Dell. There’s always an opportunity to make a difference.
- If you work just for money,
you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put
the customer first, success will be yours.
- Winners take time to relish
their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from
the top so exhilarating
- Management is nothing more than
motivating other people
- Motivation is the art of
getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it
- The most serious mistakes are
not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is
asking the wrong question. –
- Why did I want to win? Because
I didn’t want to lose!
- To succeed in business, to
reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about
that business.
- I wasn’t satisfied just to earn
a good living. I was looking to make a statement.
- To succeed… You need to find
something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire
you.
- Statistics suggest that when
customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited
about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more
business.
- To win without risk is to
triumph without glory.
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