Everything Quotes

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

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

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

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

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

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

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.

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

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.

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

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

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

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.

It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

We're all working together; that's the secret.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.

If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.

Word of mouth is the best medium of all.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

My father told me, never have partners.

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

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

All lasting business is built on friendship.