Business Quotes

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!

Two heads are definitely better than one and by sourcing ideas from each other, you have a better chance of coming up with a strategy that will allow your business to overcome a setback or challenge.

Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

We've got a low turnover management group and executive group who've grown up in the business.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

Satan has been the best friend the Church has ever had, as He has kept it in business all these years!

Marketing is not an event, but a process It has a beginning, a middle, but never an end, for it is a process. You improve it, perfect it, change it, even pause it. But you never stop it completely.

You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business.

God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.

In an era of transparency, you can have innovation without branding, but you cannot have branding without innovation.

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.

Marketing's job is never done. It's about perpetual motion. We must continue to innovate every day.

The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials but the ones with the concern.

When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there

Basic income is not a utopia, it's a practical business plan for the next step of the human journey.

I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.

If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.

He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.

Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.

There is no such thing as 'on the way out' as long as you are still doing something interesting and good; you're in the business because you're breathing.

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.

I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.

The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.

Nearly 100% of innovation-from business to politics-is inspired not by "market analysis" but by people who are supremely pissed off by the way things are.

The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left.

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't.

You are surrounded by simple, obvious solutions that can dramatically increase your income, power, influence and success. The problem is, you just don't see them.

Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department.

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

An enterprise's most vital assets lie in its design and other creative capabilities.

I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.