Everything Quotes

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

No great thing is created suddenly.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife.

Great companies are built on great products.

Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.

I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something.

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

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.