Business Quotes

I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.

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.

A bankruptcy judge can fix your balance sheet, but he cannot fix your company.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

My father told me, never have partners.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.

We're all working together; that's the secret.

Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.