Business Quotes

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

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.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

I buy when other people are selling.

You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.

The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

Exchange ideas frequently.

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it's the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you're dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.

Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today.