Business Growth Quotes

Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.

People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency.

A great leader will never sacrifice the people for the numbers.

I know many members of our community steer clear of Wall Street because of the perception that the stock market is risky, but I am convinced the biggest risk of all is not taking one.

There are many who subscribe to the convention that service is a business cost, but our data demonstrates that superior service is an investment that can help drive business growth. Investing in quality talent, and ensuring they have the skills, training and tools that enable them to empathize and actively listen to customers are central to providing consistently excellent service experiences.

I am proud of my country. But we need to unite to make a unified India, free of communalism and casteism. We need to build India into a land of equal opportunity for all. We can be a truly great nation if we set our sights high and deliver to the people the fruits of continued growth, prosperity and equal opportunity.

The country is now universally recognised as a nation on the move and takes its place amongst the successful economies in the region. The future potential is enormous but the country's destiny is in our hands. The time has come to move from small increments to bold, large initiatives. The time has come to stretch the envelope and set goals which were earlier not seen to be possible. The time has come for performance to be measured and for allocated funds of the government to reach the people for whom they were intended.

Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably.

It was our duty to expand. Those who cannot or will not join us are to be pitied. What we want to do, we can do and will do, together. A glorious future!

What makes networking work is that it sets up win-win situations in which all parties involved get to take something home. Networking is a sharing process. Until you understand that, you won't have much of a network.

Our growth depends not on how many experiences we devour, but on how many we digest.

Sell to their needs-not from yours.

What if i fail?" ...the more profound question is, "what if i never fail?" "Stop making excuses and start managing your fear.

It's just as valuable to curate content as it is to create it.

It's a mistake to predict the size of markets that are so new. This model has shown no signs of slowing down. So we are going to get as much of it as we possibly can, and when we get close to that we'll figure out other problems.

For years I have made the point that progress in winding back economic slack is made not by high growth in any individual year, but by maintaining an expansion over a sustained period.

When a small business grows like eBay did, it has a multiplier effect. It creates other small businesses that supply it with intellectual capital, goods and services.

The fact that equities are being sold down, despite the lowest interest rates in recent history, simply means that the market doesn't see growth ahead for -very many businesses.

Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.

Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.

I understand small business growth. I was one.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Move fast and break things.

The best thing government can do now is get out of the way and let small businesses innovate, hire and grow. Unfortunately, this is unlikely to happen unless Washington stops increasing regulations, taxes and other blocks to business growth.

If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big!

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

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

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

We started Yahoo in about April 1994. It started out as a way for us to keep track of things that we were interested in.

We could make a difference just by holding our emissions steady as our businesses continue to grow. But that doesn't seem to be enough: we want to go all the way to zero... Today, I am announcing our intention to be carbon neutral, across all our businesses, by 2010.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

You cannot force growth of human life and civilization, any more than you can force these slow-growing trees. That is the economy of Almighty God, that all good growth is slow growth.

Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.

We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

First of all we had very few users. We might have had a hundred accesses a day. So there was really no demand from the users to add their own links. Things changed over time though as our access rates doubled every month. Through word of mouth on the Net more and more people began using it.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.