Business Quotes

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Here’s my theory about meetings and life; the three things you can’t fake are erections, competence and creativity. That’s why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say, 'Mmmmmm. Interesting.' If pressed, they’ll add, 'I’ll have to get back to you on that.' Then they don’t say anything else.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

The more I know about business, the more I'm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Business has only two basic functions-marketing and innovation.

There is one person in charge of every office in America and that person is Charles Darwin.

In business, you must remain unattached to the outcome. It matters not who is chosen first and who is chosen second. The only thing that matters is the final verdict.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

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.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

The chief business of the American people is business.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college.

A dinner lubricates business.

No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

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

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart.

If investments are keeping you awake at night, sell down to the sleeping point.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everyone to tell me the truth--even if it costs him his job.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

The business of America is business.

Advertising is the life of trade.

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

We have to make America the best place in the world to do business.

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.

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.