Business Quotes

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Details create the big picture.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.