Business Quotes

Turning every business into an environmental industry will involve applying new principles...first, we need to make more with less...second, we need to design out waste...third, we must begin to decarbonise our energy supply

Cutting carbon in the supply chain is the next critical stage in the business contribution to reduce carbon emissions to tackle climate change and, represents a significant commercial opportunity.

Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.

I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.

The E Myth. Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

Decisions are a way of defining ourselves. There comes a time in life when there is nothing else to do but go your own way. Where you are headed there are no trails, no paths, just your own instincts.

You learn in this business.. If you want a friend, get a dog.

It's not that I'm not interested in politics, but rather, I think that the people who become politicians in Japan are not very dynamic. Honestly, I find business much more interesting than politics.

I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really

My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.

The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

In life and business, there are two cardinal sins. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all.

The more alike two products are, the more important their differences become.

We should never be allowed to forget that it is the customer who, in the end, determines how many people are employed and what sort of wages companies can afford.

There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.

If you don't ask, the answer is always no.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

Business is in itself a power.

Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

During difficult economic times, consumers gravitate toward the brands they know, the brands they love and trust.

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

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 purpose of a business is to create a customer.

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

I've always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I'd read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

Some people serve with pride - because they 'want to' do and be their best; other people serve with disdain because they 'have to' do their job. Which person do you think will end up running the show?

Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

There's an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, 'It's not the right time just yet.' There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance, and start your business.

Things that annoy me end up fuelling my ideas.

We need to think harder and smarter. What we really need is holistic analysis, not holistic media data. We need to make better use of what we have. We need to dig deeper and ask, 'Do you need to repeat the whole study or can you examine the bits that have changed and re-calibrate?'

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

In my 35 years in business I have always trusted my emotions. I have always believed that by touching emotion you get the best people to work with you, the best clients to inspire you, the best partners and most devoted customers.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

If we achieve our sustainability targets and no one else follows, we will have failed.

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.