962 private quotes tagged business

“Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.” — Mary Kay Ash

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“In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later.” — Harold S. Geneen

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“Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.” — Gary Ryan Blair

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“If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.” — B. C. Forbes

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“Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.” — Peter Drucker

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“If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.” — J. Paul Getty

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“We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.” — Alexis de Tocqueville

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“It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.” — Isaac Asimov

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“Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.” — Tacitus

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“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.” — Max de Pree

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“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.” — Tom Peters

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“An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.” — Fred Allen

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“Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.” — William Arthur Ward

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“In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.” — William Wordsworth

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“The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.” — Walter Lippmann

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“Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.” — Scott McNealy

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“The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.” — Michael Korda

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“I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.” — Lord Acton

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“I buy when other people are selling.” — J. Paul Getty

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“The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.” — Arthur C. Clarke

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“Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.” — Scott Adams

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“Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.” — Scott Adams

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“Business is a combination of war and sport.” — Andre Maurois

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