Business Quotes - Page 5

Hard work isn't enough. And more work is never the real answer. The sort of grit you need to scale a business is less reliant on brute force. It's actually one part determination, one part ingenuity, and one part laziness.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together.

Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your people. Sustainability starts with your staff.

We have pretty much all the facets of our business under our control now. Relying on someone else to do the right thing, you're just setting yourself up to get screwed. We control our own destiny and it's a really good feeling.

When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.

Everybody told me I was making a mistake by going into this business, but I know how to grow hair as well as I know how to grow cotton.

If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.

I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.

I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.

The answers to today's most important scientific, business, and social problems lie in data.

I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company.

I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

From my standpoint, we ought to be talking about... how do you make Wisconsin a more attractive place for risk-taking, business investment, business expansion.

For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners, and everyone involved in my business, but most importantly to the young people we influence, I apologize.

No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

The reality of life is, if you have a bagel shop and everybody is pouring into the doughnut shop across the street, if you want to stay in business, you start selling doughnuts.

No first-time entrepreneur has the business network of contacts needed to succeed. An incubator should be well integrated into the local business community and have a steady source of contacts and introductions.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.

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.

I dreamt of running my own business even as a kid, but if not a CEO, I would have probably been a pilot.

My father, Beric, ran a joinery business and owned two factories.