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.