Business Quotes

"Our work is the presentation of our capabilities."

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

"Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun."

"To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less."

"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."

"Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."

"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference."

"Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best."

"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution."

"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage."

"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows."

"If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem."

"If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion."

"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage."

"There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else."

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

"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference."

"When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge."

"First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people."

"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell."

"One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency."

"Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people."

"An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it."

"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution."

"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."

"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today."

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."

"If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it."

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

"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."