Business Quotes

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the sea.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

In looking for someone to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. But the most important is integrity, because if they don't have that, the other two qualities, intelligence and energy, are going to kill you.

Leaders are made, not born. You learn to become a leader by doing what other excellent leaders have done before you. You become proficient in your job or skill, and then you become proficient at understanding the motivations and behaviors of other people.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

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

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

If they don't fail outright, most businesses fail to fully achieve their potential. That's because the person who owns the business doesn't truly know how to build a company that works without him or her.. which is the key.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays the wages.

Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.