The best Quotes about Business

Great companies are built on great products.

In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.

I've actually not read any books on time management.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

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.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

It’s business. Leave your emotions at the door.

When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable.

If you can't admit a failure, you're not an entrepreneur. You are not a good business person. There's nothing brilliant about what you are doing.

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

Your first projects aren't the greatest things in the world, and they may have no money value, they may go nowhere, but that is how you learn - you put so much effort into making something right if it is for yourself.

You can make something big when young that will carry you through life. Look at all the big startups like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. They were all started by very young people who stumbled on something of unseen value. You'll know it when you hit a home run.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

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.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

There are two kinds of companies; those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. One will be second.

I'm against retiring. The thing that keeps a man alive is having something to do.

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.

You're only as good as the people you hire.

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

Succeeding in business is not just about making money.

Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.

Along the way, I learned the key to launching a company. It's all about storytelling.

I guess one of the main things you realize when you work as an entrepreneur is that it's long days, long hours.

Great products sell themselves.

What made Louis Vuitton famous was the quality. We don't do marketing; we just create products which are exceptional in their design and craftsmanship.

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.

Google was founded to get information to everybody. A by-product of that strategy is that we invented an advertising business which has provided great economics that allows us to build the servers, hire the employees, create value.

Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.

Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don't know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.

No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can't communicate.

I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.

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

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

It really isn't about fun anymore; it's about mission.